{"product_id":"the-fountain-of-bandages-hardcover","title":"The Fountain of Bandages - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Mason-Browne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNic Arp\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNic Arp\u003c\/b\u003e (Designed by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Song-text\" is not an attractive term, but it has its uses. Poem and poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave, in my experience, come to be such pestilent and unpopular words\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat it can be a relief sometimes to reach out for some neutral alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday the prospect of any kind of poetry at all in the long term can seem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evaporous at best. That prospect, I would venture to say, is as daunting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow as it has ever been during my lifetime. Is there no way forward? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have been trying, particularly in recent years, to come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto terms with what might well be the one viable option left to us - an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoption that is, sad to say, as humbling as it is unlikely and onerous. It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einvolves retracing our steps in a decisive, perhaps irrevocable, way. There\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare moments when the future resides somewhere in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy own best hope is that this gathering of poems, as diverse or motley as it might\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseem, is suggestive of some other, more modest, but predominant, idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does, after all, have its own larger story to tell - that of a traveler in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe margins of a volatile, diminished, and stricken time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849900810547,"sku":"9798218893576","price":39.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pYFKXtAygk9798218893576.webp?v=1786587507","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-fountain-of-bandages-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}