{"product_id":"rags-of-night-in-our-mouths-9780228011163","title":"Rags of Night in Our Mouths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eRags of Night in Our Mouths is a poetry collection that explores the human and environmental states of precarity and vulnerability. It draws upon the family's deep roots in the Tantramar Marsh area and constructs a hallucinatory world of fragility, chaos, and searing natural beauty. The focus moves from an absent beloved to the teeming, non-human world of an endangered saltmarsh, and the closing suite honors a landscape slated to be destroyed and pays homage to those who walk the ragged shoreline, struggling to make sense of losses and death. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 80 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 05 April 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargo Wheaton stood in the middle of her childhood home, struck by two things: the extent of the damage caused by her father's and stepmother's alcoholism, and the life force that pulsed in the once-vibrant rooms and yard. The abandoned trees, neglected flowerbeds, and gardens her parents had planted and tended for decades were a testament to their dedication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRags of Night in Our Mouths is a powerful exploration of human and environmental states of precarity and vulnerability. In the opening suite, Wheaton draws upon her family's deep roots in the Tantramar Marsh area and constructs a hallucinatory world of fragility, chaos, and searing natural beauty. She writes her own version of Maritime gothic, surveying the ruins of her working-class childhood home, a thriving place now ravaged by generational alcoholism and despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus of the book then moves to the teeming, non-human world of an endangered saltmarsh on a wild shore of the Northumberland Strait bordering Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. In the closing suite, Wheaton honours a landscape slated to be destroyed and pays homage to \"the broken-hearted, the bereaved\" who walk the ragged shoreline, struggling to make sense of losses and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRags of Night in Our Mouths is a meditative and beautifully crafted book that calls us to engage passionately with our suffering world. It is a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of caring for our planet and its inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 191 x 127 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780228011163\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margo Wheaton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44099675259130,"sku":"9780228011163","price":13.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_44e744fb-73ae-40ea-9d0c-1b7f788e24c6.jpg?v=1654013553","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/rags-of-night-in-our-mouths-9780228011163","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}