{"product_id":"double-takes","title":"Double Takes","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwinning Is Well Embedded In Lawrence SailS Family: Himself The Son Of A Twin, He Also Has A Twin Sister And  Youngest Of His Four Children  Twin Daughters. His BookS Title Double Takes Reflects The Poems Central Concern With Many Aspects Of Duality  Whether Manifested In The Context Of Human Relations, Translations, The Moment Saved From Time Or The Touchstone Of Mortality.In Some Instances, Juxtapositions And Counterpoints Bring Affinities To Light; In Others, Distance And Difference. A Number Of The Poems Address The Political And The Public: The Plight Of Refugees, A Photo Of Putin Beside GorbachevS Coffin, BrechtS Take On The Ways Of The World. Others Confront The Hard Consequences Of Illness. Most Of All, These Are Poems That Pay Proper Attention To Their Subjects, And Which Amount To An Appreciation Of Beauty And Balance, However Precarious, As In Moving Out, Where It Is Only Being On The Brink Of Removal That Makes It Possible To Engage With The Ins And Outs, And To Benefit From The Startle Of Those Double Takes \/ Which Reinterpret Truth.Lawrence SailS Retrospective, Waking Dreams: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems, A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, Was Published By Bloodaxe In 2010, And Followed By His Later Collections The Quick (2015), Guises (2020), And Now, Double Takes (2026).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958679519477,"sku":"DADAX1780377940","price":32.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71-zc2v0qKL.jpg?v=1775578530","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/double-takes","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}