{"product_id":"chan-weyman-a-child-3pb","title":"[10\/13\/26] Chan, Weyman: A Child's Seance","description":"\u003cp\u003eTalonbooks, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 13, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Child's Seance\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a Ouija board game played by a brother and sister as they attempt to make contact with their dead mother. Out of their shared grief explodes a big bang of questions about the universe's smeared complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeyman Chan's far-reaching poetry offers a surreal, astral travelogue that bears the ghost brush of classical Chinese portraiture. Its figures pose against a lived prairie landscape that steels resilience against loss, mental struggles, sexual misfires, and threats of alien abduction. Working across the intimate, the historical, and the cosmic, \u003cem\u003eA Child's Seance\u003c\/em\u003e validates the human experiment and its chaos, asking what the poem and its syntactical paintbrush can catch of our fleeting, all-too-brief lives. It insists that the worlds we intersect, however messy or unreachable, are still all one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118187339799,"sku":"9781772017236","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81Y7d76bahL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781818068","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/chan-weyman-a-child-3pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}