{"product_id":"9781674629933","title":"Mars! Mars! Mars!--Poetry","description":"Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Life on Mars (Seeker Magazine [Vancouver, BC], 2005). \/\/ An excerpt \/\/ Corvus Corax--The Raven \/\/ Siberian storm front-prophet, \/ MacBeth-black cloud, \/ And Poe's ache-- \/\/ This trickster, \/ This ravenous clawer of \/ Fruits and seeds \/ And rotting flesh, \/ This coniferous roamer \/ And desert nomad, \/ Croaks like a mournful hag \/ Or mimics that diminutive \/ Brainless crow. \/\/ Inuit carvers \/ Immortalize this prankster- \/ Thief haunting ice fishermen, \/ This vaudeville clown who dumps \/ Snow on Yellowknife-victims \/ Beneath steep metal roofs. \/\/ In the torrent valley of Cherith, \/ You fed Elijah Between ravines and crags, \/\/ Your thunderbolt blackness \/ Filled aerial somersaults \/ And upside-down fly-bys \/ In courtship \/ Or mere play. \/\/ You taunt wolves-- \/ Peck their hairy tails-- \/ But feast on their feast \/ Between tricks that \/ The Haida often recall. \/\/ You croak of the glee, the surprise, \/ The excitement and anger and \/ Tenderness in the blood \/ Of every man, \/ Of every Noah sending forth \/ A query-- \/ \"Is all well \/ On dry ground?\" \/\/ You are the shaggy-throated \/ Roamer, the blue jay-cousin, \/ And cleverest passerine. \/ When you mate, it is for life, \/ And there is no child abuse \/ In your beak or claw. \/\/ You are the clown of the forest, \/ The king of the pun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDan Lukiv\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eIndependently Published\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eDec 12, 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e45 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e1674629931\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e• \u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e9781674629933\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50367048253745,"sku":"9781674629933","price":12.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/8215\/8385\/files\/9781674629933__34877.jpg?v=1732509699","url":"https:\/\/www.recomparo.com\/products\/9781674629933","provider":"ReComparo.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}