{"product_id":"the-law-of-the-unforeseen-paperback-2","title":"The Law of the Unforeseen - 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\u003eEdward Harkness\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Law of the Unforeseen \u003c\/em\u003eis about family, history, family history, the natural world--its beauty, its degradation--the strange miracle of consciousness. I write about the blues, failure, great apes, time passing, icebergs, massage therapy, the Civil War, crows, bats, potatoes, spoons and drones. Nothing is off the table. In fact, everything is on the table, including the fabled kitchen sink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet Galway Kinnell once said that when writing a poem, the deeper you go inside yourself, and the more intimate you become in the process of composing and engaging language with your whole being, a strange thing happens. The poem, Kinnell said, becomes both personal \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e universal. By diving deep, the poem discovers--or uncovers--what binds us, what we all feel: the quickened heart of recognition and shared emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's what I've aimed for in \u003cem\u003eThe Law of the Unforeseen\u003c\/em\u003e: to plumb deep, to find \"the best words in their best order,\" as Samuel Taylor Coleridge said in his famous distinction between prose (\"...words in the best order.\") and poetry \"...the \u003cem\u003ebest\u003c\/em\u003e words in the best order\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582658068701,"sku":"9780912887715","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Xb3m8njjgc9780912887715_56c38051-fa2b-4fa2-a63b-2d1a90762ac4.webp?v=1773582987","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-law-of-the-unforeseen-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}