{"product_id":"late-empire-9781556595189","title":"Late Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely yet elemental collection unfolds where the exigencies and distractions of daily life brush up against the political, the ethical, and the existential. \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlstein here meditates on a world gone awry, limning in precise, beautifully modulated language both personal dislocation and the slings and arrows visited upon the community at large. \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant and provocative. \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLate Empire,\u003c\/em\u003ethe poet throws herself into a disturbing discussion about 21st-century realities, pinpointing, questioning, and exhorting. It's a riveting picture of the micro, day-to-day busy-ness against the macro, overshadowing struggle of existential survival. \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth book?a gorgeous call-to-arms in the face of our current social and political conditions?Lisa Olstein employs her signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity in poems that are her most personal?and political?to date. Like a brilliant dinner conversation that ranges from animated discussions of politics, philosophy, and religion to intimate considerations of motherhood, friendship, and eros, Olstein's voice is immediately approachable yet uncomfortably at home in the American empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Olstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four poetry collections and a book-length lyric essay. She is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches in the Michener Center for Writers and New Writers Project MFA programs. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041319584087,"sku":"9781556595189","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556595189.jpg?v=1750949797","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/late-empire-9781556595189","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}