{"product_id":"intruder-9781487008710","title":"Intruder","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBemused and droll, paranoid and demagogic, Sinaee's much-anticipated debut collection presents a world beset by precarity, illness, and human sprawl. Anxiety, hospitalization, and body paranoia recur in the poems' imagery -- Sinaee went through two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy in his mid-twenties, documented in the vertiginous multipart prose poem \"Twelve Storeys\" -- making \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e a book that seems especially timely, notably in the dreamlike, minimalist sequence \"Half-Life,\" written during the lockdown in Toronto in spring 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProgressing from plain-spoken dispatches about city life to lucid nightmares of the calamities of history, the poems in \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately grapple with, and even embrace, the daily undertaking of living through whatever the hell it is we're living through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45129697755287,"sku":"9781487008710","price":974.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781487008710.webp?v=1767905111","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/intruder-9781487008710","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}