{"product_id":"songs-that-remind-us-of-factories-9780889712928","title":"Songs That Remind Us of Factories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Danny Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSongs that Remind Us of Factories\u003c\/i\u003e explore how we\u003cbr\u003eremain connected: to the world outside, to our ideas of home, to\u003cbr\u003eeach other, and to ourselves. In their searching, these magpie poems\u003cbr\u003estrike a balance between wound language and quiet meditation, \u003cbr\u003ethe arched-brow wisecrack and the emotionally frank gesture. The\u003cbr\u003eresult is an honest and playful sequence of poems that plumb our\u003cbr\u003emyriad reactions when small wildernesses occasionally come inside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book's final section asks whether we may not be too\u003cbr\u003econnected. They mine a world of rapid technological and commercial\u003cbr\u003egrowth for its poetic potential, focusing on work in call centres, \u003cbr\u003epostmodern spaces where the walls of dying suburban malls have\u003cbr\u003ebeen repurposed with fishnets of fibre-op and chain gangs of\u003cbr\u003echopped desktop\/Dells; where you're licked\/ before the call comes\u003cbr\u003ekicking in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a poetry that refuses to stagnate in one mode, wearing\u003cbr\u003eall manner of poetic hats while always avoiding drab lyrical sentiment.\u003cbr\u003eWith a jumpy musicality and a taut line, these poems wander\u003cbr\u003efar, zeroing in on moments of daily connection while also opening\u003cbr\u003ewider their frame of reference to explore the often fractured links\u003cbr\u003ewe have to family and loss, science and religion, the idealized rural\u003cbr\u003eand the newly urba\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999679463575,"sku":"9780889712928","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780889712928.webp?v=1783601406","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/songs-that-remind-us-of-factories-9780889712928","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}