{"product_id":"9781643621173","title":"Madness","description":"Author: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781643621173\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Jun 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003epays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated.\"-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in a speculative present, \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e alternates between poetry and editorial commentary to investigate how language spans a life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e is a study in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836314996894,"sku":"ADS-9781643621173","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781643621173.jpg?v=1778737743","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781643621173","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}