{"product_id":"pruiksma-thomas-hitoshi-safety-of-pb","title":"Pruiksma, Thomas Hitoshi: The Safety of Edges","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarrowstone, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eFebruary 14, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eponders liminal times and spaces, tracing the borders between now and then, here and there, childhood and the grown poet. The edge of anything is both a limit and a possibility, an encounter either safe or risky. Pruiksma's poems seek what it is one awakens to in the half light between darkness and dawn, an emptiness that is not empty, a \"saying in the silence,\" \"a song we can't see,\" or whatever in movement might remain still. Pondering a world waiting to be whole, they return repeatedly to home. Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. Not only doors or walls, not only voices, all things leave traces.  There is nothing \"to dull the emptying darkness beyond even the darkness I could see,\" Pruiksma writes in a poem that appears early in his book.  Yet he finds, near the end of it, \"a darkness not dark, an emptiness not empty.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a work of a compassionate discreteness, a generous simplicity, in which the hours of life are not lost but found, sometimes, \"all of it here in our hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Weltner, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Light of the Sun Become Sea\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnbecoming Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817161175063,"sku":"9780578438351","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71CXu83HnaL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1768001728","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/pruiksma-thomas-hitoshi-safety-of-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}