{"product_id":"an-army-of-lovers-9780872866294","title":"An Army of Lovers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetry’s role in the world.—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am fascinated by their attention to inequality, to questions of violence and community: something borne out by the collaboration itself.—Bhana Kapil''s Best Books of 2013 on The Volta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Army of Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e explores the liminal spaces where cities and individuals come together and stand apart with strange, brainy grace.—Michelle Tea, author of \u003ci\u003eMermaid in Chelsea Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy means of a series of stylistically and tonally various prose segments (by turns reflexive and dialogic, ironic and depressive, unhinged and hallucinatory, wetly emotional and dryly wry, including a detournement of a Raymond Carver story), the book centers, emotionally, on the ebb and flow of what it calls ''struggle-force.'' Signature drone strikes, torture, ecological collapse, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These are stories told with one foot in the Summer of Love and the other in the sewer.\"--Adam Park, Eleven Eleven Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One\u003cbr\u003eA PICTURESQUE STORY ABOUT \u003cbr\u003eTHE BORDER BETWEEN TWO CITIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Two\u003cbr\u003eWHAT WE TALK ABOUT \u003cbr\u003eWHEN WE TALK ABOUT POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Three\u003cbr\u003eTHE SIDE EFFECT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Four\u003cbr\u003eTHE SIDE EFFECT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Five\u003cbr\u003eAN ARMY OF LOVERS\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742347723095,"sku":"9780872866294","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-army-of-lovers-9780872866294","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}