{"product_id":"about-crows-9780299291945","title":"About Crows","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Craig Blais\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of traumas that the speaker does not always experience firsthand but carries with him to refashion into some new importance. This is a book of half-states, broken affiliations, and dislocation. The speaker leads the reader through the fragments of a flooded town that grows increasingly elusive the more one looks for it; through a succession of Seoul \"love motels\" that further displace the outsider to unclaimed margins transformed into sites of creative invention; through \"galleries\" of artwork, where movement, color, and image are renewed through ekphrasis; and through the world of the metatextual long poem \"The Cult Poem,\" where good and bad moral binaries tangle into a rat's nest of our best and worst spiritual ambitions. The poems and sequences of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e are marked by their artistic balance of the sublime and the profane, of polyphony, syntactical complexity, clashing images, cagey humor, and unsettling sincerity, all trying desperately to connect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408564576407,"sku":"9780299291945","price":1344.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780299291945.webp?v=1767310089","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/about-crows-9780299291945","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}