{"product_id":"9781487011253","title":"Passengers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nEclectic, unpredictable, and strange, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWidely considered “one of Canada's finest writers” (\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e), Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part archeological dig, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Crummey (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":50181413339493,"sku":"9781487011253","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2cca43a-a65d-45ba-b84d-6243d17d2e84.jpg?v=1772217266","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9781487011253","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}