{"product_id":"based-on-actual-events-9781550654554","title":"Based on Actual Events","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Moore\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vehicule Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vehicule Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its inspiration from the Melville's famous line \"If man will strike, strike through the mask!\", \u003ci\u003eBased on Actual Events\u003c\/i\u003e punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a \"a realist in fabulist clothing,\" Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a desire for sublimity. His project is to find new frames of reference for our estrangement from the world. With each burst of invention and stylistic high-spiritedness (\"So we reverse engineered the awesome and all we got \/ was this lousy poesy\"), \u003ci\u003e Based on Actual Events\u003c\/i\u003e adds up to be Moore's best book yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082468057239,"sku":"9781550654554","price":683.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781550654554.webp?v=1767634731","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/based-on-actual-events-9781550654554","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}