{"product_id":"9781643621173","title":"Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Madness pays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated.\"—The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a speculative present, Madness alternates between poetry and editorial commentary to investigate how language spans a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMadness is a selected poems for a fictional poet: Luis Montes-Torres, a gay Cuban exile who makes a minor name for himself in the world of poetry before the contours of his ordinary life become overwhelming, stilted, and impossible. This is a story of the unpredictable wavering between anxiety and attachment, between the political and the personal, that accompanies any American life marked by difference. Madness is a study in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45622273507407,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":628.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781643621173","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}