{"title":"Poetry + Prose","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ink-earl","title":"Ink Earl","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eInk Earl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes the popular subgenre of erasure poetry to its illogical conclusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStarting with ad copy that extols the iconic Pink Pearl eraser, Holbrook erases and erases, revealing more and more. Rubbing out different words from this decidedly non-literary, noncanonical source text, she was left with the promise of 100 essays and set about to find them. Among her discoveries are queer love poems, art projects, political commentary, lunch, songs, and entire extended families.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe absurdity of the constraint lends itself to plenty of fun and funny, while reminding us of truths assiduously erased by normative forces. I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003enk Earl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's variations are testament in micro to the act of poiesis as not so much a building as an intrepid series of effacements; we rub away at the walls of language we've lived within in order to release both what's been written over, and what we want to say now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4.5\" x 7.5\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e136 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eABOUT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusan Holbrook's poetry books are the Trillium-nominated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoy Is So Exhausting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Coach House, 2009), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood Egg Bad Seed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Nomados, 2004) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emisled\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Red Deer, 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. 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Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The ten poem-sequences in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e3 Summers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e inflect a history of textual voices – Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras – in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time – embodied here in Lisa Robertson's forceful cadences – can tell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8\" x 9\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e96 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. 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Part art book, part zine collection, part diary, part graphic novel, but all Sonja Ahlers, we finally have closure from an artist who continues to push the boundaries of what a book can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6\" x 8.5\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e240 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSonja Ahlers is a visual artist and poet from Victoria, BC. 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Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as one of the central works in the history of world poetry. 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