{"product_id":"9781773101804","title":"All the People Are Pregnant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor's a raft,\" declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present — from \"slummy memories of streets\" to a \"a charnelhouse (?) of possible clowns\" — defamiliarizing, critiquing, and satirizing a wide range of conversational forms in the style of Wallace Stevens and Michael Palmer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, as \"lives at time degenerate into victory competitions,\" and the poet alternates between searching for an escape from the mundane and accepting that \"merely being there together is a dull catastrophe,\" we recognize that a formally wry, almost flippant, voice has become caught in language's web. The surfaces of the poems begin to feel like thin ice, a brittle coating over which we skate for as long as it lasts. Danger lurks here: the poet must play the puppet, not the puppeteer and we must surrender, body and soul, into language as element.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45997935132751,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":698.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781773101804-1.jpg?v=1783040500","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781773101804","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}