{"product_id":"imperfect-beginnings-9781913211981","title":"Imperfect Beginnings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eImperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother's breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 82 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 28 February 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fly on the Wall Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother’s breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelonging and exile are mirrored in the stories of having to leave one’s birthmother—or motherland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom narrative poems such as ‘My Father Sold Cigarettes To The Nazis’, Fogel takes us on a journey throughout history, spanning ancestry, wartime, adoption and peacetime, as life settles. Family, work, love and the natural world provide purpose, meaning and a sense of coming ‘home’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 102g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 127 x 197 x 15 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781913211981\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viv Fogel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44115538837754,"sku":"9781913211981","price":7.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1679473280994_book_52c34de7-8281-4cae-9639-71c9042632d5.jpg?v=1679898489","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/imperfect-beginnings-9781913211981","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}