{"product_id":"the-safety-of-edges-paperback","title":"The Safety of Edges - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Hitoshi Pruiksma\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e ponders liminal times and spaces, tracing the borders between now and then, here and there, childhood and the grown poet. The edge of anything is both a limit and a possibility, an encounter either safe or risky. Pruiksma's poems seek what it is one awakens to in the half light between darkness and dawn, an emptiness that is not empty, a \"saying in the silence,\" \"a song we can't see,\" or whatever in movement might remain still. Pondering a world waiting to be whole, they return repeatedly to home. Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. Not only doors or walls, not only voices, all things leave traces.  There is nothing \"to dull the emptying darkness beyond even the darkness I could see,\" Pruiksma writes in a poem that appears early in his book.  Yet he finds, near the end of it, \"a darkness not dark, an emptiness not empty.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Safety of Edges\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of a compassionate discreteness, a generous simplicity, in which the hours of life are not lost but found, sometimes, \"all of it here in our hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Weltner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Light of the Sun Become Sea \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eUnbecoming Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453088514226,"sku":"9780578438351","price":15.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c161fef872252aade34b3b2f4959cce3.webp?v=1778820654","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-safety-of-edges-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}