{"product_id":"the-world-after-rain-annes-poem","title":"The World After Rain: Anne's Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions \u003ci\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long-form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as \"incandescent\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this stunning new poem, Canisia Lubrin's signature epic vision is distilled into a elegy to her mother, along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment that belongs as much to history as to today. Her lucid attention to what might be the oldest metaphor for grief is drawn from the searing gravity and resonance of the modern poet's decisive, interior, and inexpressible meditation on love, time, and loss in the excesses of life's ambitions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ewoman from fine-print time, disclose to the world: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe forecast of our noontime births outdoors; how I distrust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eevery form of authority, chiefly my own astonishment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethis poisoned wish is why I love, I bow to deserts, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethese claychildren of forests everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI love the rain, this is no secret, I love the solar wind;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ehold their elliptical life in the wasteland of our third mouths\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhere flowers are invisible and bones are sanded and amusing, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand every heliopause cloud senses our head, how we astonish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eour memories vining where no shade is enough, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esince many who'll feed me will refuse me their names, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand good, who knows what bargains I would make\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith their meanings . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1593768192\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781593768195\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lubrin, Canisia\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2026)","offer_id":46099796099269,"sku":"9781593768195","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781593768195.jpg?v=1776644830","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-world-after-rain-annes-poem","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}