{"product_id":"2026100012568-secondhand-he-dances-signed","title":"He Dances (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: No. 33 of 225 copies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the spare, luminous pages of He Dances, John Miles crafts a poetry collection that pulses with sensory immediacy and lyrical restraint, drawing the reader into a world where friendship, joy, and the intoxicating rhythms of human connection are rendered in vivid, imagistic verse. The very title poem announces Miles's artistic intent with startling economy: a friend stands, sings, blooms — and in that bloom, an entire universe of shared experience unfolds. The collection inhabits a space between the celebratory and the contemplative, where wine, spring, and laughter become the vocabulary of a deeply felt human philosophy.\n\nMiles writes with the precision of a poet who trusts silence as much as sound, allowing white space and carefully chosen imagery to carry emotional weight that more verbose verse could never achieve. His lines move with a dancer's controlled grace — deliberate, rhythmic, and quietly surprising — marking him as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry. He Dances is a collection that rewards slow, repeated reading, each return uncovering new resonances hidden beneath its seemingly simple surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022575796443,"sku":"2026100012568-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/192de7b2-39a4-4938-958a-620a9998691b.png?v=1793665156","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012568-secondhand-he-dances-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}