{"product_id":"all-the-people-are-pregnant-9781773101804","title":"All the People Are Pregnant","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrew DuBois\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor's a raft,\" declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present -- from \"slummy memories of streets\" to a \"a charnelhouse (?) of possible clowns\" -- defamiliarizing, critiquing, and satirizing a wide range of conversational forms in the style of Wallace Stevens and Michael Palmer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, as \"lives at time degenerate into victory competitions,\" and the poet alternates between searching for an escape from the mundane and accepting that \"merely being there together is a dull catastrophe,\" we recognize that a formally wry, almost flippant, voice has become caught in language's web. The surfaces of the poems begin to feel like thin ice, a brittle coating over which we skate for as long as it lasts. Danger lurks here: the poet must play the puppet, not the puppeteer and we must surrender, body and soul, into language as element.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968832782487,"sku":"9781773101804","price":1390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781773101804.webp?v=1782919541","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/all-the-people-are-pregnant-9781773101804","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}