{"product_id":"9780228029311","title":"Openbound : Poems of Relation (The Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trouble with honesty, it has no \/ final answers, leaves you in the cranny \/ where nothing left unknown meets finding out.\n\u003cbr\u003e The puzzles of poetry and marriage are these: How to hold on to what you also release? How to protect love when other loves are put between? In this collection of sixty-nine \"fifteeners\" - sonnet-like constellations of five tercets - Jeffery Donaldson explores the outcomes of both questions over the course of a life in verse and a loving thirty-one-year open marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems orbit around two readings that Donaldson and his wife chose for their wedding: a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke about two people protecting one another's solitude; and a scene from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince in which the prince is told, \"You are responsible for your rose.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs openbound turns toward open marriage itself - its risks, its revelations, its misunderstandings, its wounds under cultural scrutiny - the work reveals itself foremost as a book of love poems, continuing Donaldson's long devotion to a metaphoric both\/and poetics capacious enough to hold loving and freedom in the same breath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49355281498339,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780228029311-1.jpg?v=1788500994","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9780228029311","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}