{"product_id":"signal-infinities-a-poem-paperback","title":"Signal Infinities: A Poem - Paperback","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\u003eMelanie Siebert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpansive and moving, \u003ci\u003eSignal Infinities \u003c\/i\u003ecourses with the intelligences of the body, its music and limits, in search of more enlivening, ethical relationships with each other and the earth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSignal Infinities\u003c\/i\u003e a therapist takes up an apprenticeship to a lake, to bare attention. Pain arrives. Collective and personal injuries and errors pile up. The glaciers and ancient forests are disappearing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnlike the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e's soldiers, the cast of youth in this long poem harbour traumas that are internal, hidden, unsung. Yet each wounded one flickers with defiance and dignity. So too the blue-collar winds, the little brown bats and roadside ferns who send out their urgent signals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith unbridled oxygen affinity, this work attunes to submerged sensations, reflexes, tonal shifts, chemical transmissions and streaming kinesics. It seeks an ethics that respects the body's imperfect intercom, its private coulees and unstable weathers, its sheer limits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid too-little-too-late conditions, \u003ci\u003eSignal Infinities\u003c\/i\u003e floods with connections that are elemental, illuminating and wildly felt.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMELANIE SIEBERT is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeepwater Vee\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eHeads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health\u003c\/i\u003e won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers in Canada and was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. Melanie grew up in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, raised as a white, third-generation settler of European\/Mennonite heritage. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest on the beautiful homelands of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations and the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Melanie practices attachment-focused and nature-based therapy in Victoria, BC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47581922427101,"sku":"9780771013980","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/UQ7ridsbk09780771013980.webp?v=1773566469","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/signal-infinities-a-poem-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}