{"product_id":"9781772142150","title":"In the Slender Margin","description":"\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 2014,  \u003ci\u003eIn the Slender Margin\u003c\/i\u003e was enthusiastically received and applauded for its respectful sensitivity in dealing with a subject that is still, to many, an avoidable topic of conversation: death and dying. Using her 20+ years' experience working as a palliative care counsellor in a hospice as a springboard for exploration, Joseph probes our collective knowledge of that final life experience that we all must face. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003eIntimately personal and wise, this award-winning poet gives us a deep and profound musing, a \"wise and lyrical meditation\" on the slender margin, that mysterious slip of geography between life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Preface:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\"First published in 2014, \u003ci\u003eIn the Slender Margin\u003c\/i\u003e  was\/still is, a meditation of sorts on death and dying. It did not prescribe then, nor does it now, ways to move through grief in order to find closure. I wrote the book as a way of understanding what I had seen in my years as a hospice counsellor. In the process of writing and thinking about death from many different angles, I found the brother I had lost many years ago and, fifty years after his death, was able finally to mourn and hold him close. COVID-19 has initiated many discussions about mortality. It is my hope that this book can add, in whatever way, to those conversations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003ePraise for In the Slender Margin:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Slender Margin\u003c\/i\u003e is intended as an exploration rather than a balm or solace, though it will no doubt be those things for some people. Its resonance comes, rather, from its intelligent open-endedness, its unflinching, simultaneous embrace of death's reality and persistent mystery.\" (\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A literate, free-association meditation on the final fact of life.\" (  \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e  )\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Intricate and beautiful . . . Provides an intimate language for grief and makes death a site of wonder as much as pain. . . . In her careful prose, her encounters with the dead, dying and mourning take on a kind of grace.\" (  \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e)","brand":"Eve Joseph (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45665867661500,"sku":"9781772142150","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a4c54a80-4801-4db7-9c38-46d69e92feef.jpg?v=1767732728","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9781772142150","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}