{"product_id":"dissolve-9781556595455","title":"Dissolve","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry. \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, \u003cem\u003eDissolve\u003c\/em\u003e is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century's most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom (Untitled):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e. . . Jeweled with  houseflies, \u003cbr\u003eleather rattles, foil-wrapped, \u003cbr\u003eferment in beaked masks\u003cbr\u003eon the shores of evaporating lakes.\u003cbr\u003eThis plot, now a hotel garden, \u003cbr\u003eits fountain gushing forth\u003cbr\u003ethe slashed wrists of the Colorado River.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSherwin Bitsui \u003c\/strong\u003ewas raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them \u003cem\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/em\u003e, which  won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359613583703,"sku":"9781556595455","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556595455.jpg?v=1754125181","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dissolve-9781556595455","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}