{"product_id":"there-are-no-solid-gold-dancers-anymore-9780889712942","title":"There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adrienne Weiss\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore\u003c\/i\u003e explores the manipulative pull of self-mythology and how it informs the telling of story--whether by a fan worshipping her idol, or an old vaudevillian star reminiscing about a glamorous past. Intimate glances into the lives of the famous bring back points of reflection on their relation to the everyday. Poems about the cast of \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e present the tragedy and ambition of Hollywood life. \"Some make their living never headlining,\" but for the exhausted star, \"it's like getting off a decades-long train ride, having finally arrived, somewhere, where bluebirds fly, you know? Somewhere like the end, the final surrender.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life of the stars is full of glamour, but is also contrasted with the trauma of leading such a life: \"what a world, what a twisted\/world this is, that, like a boxer's embrace, \/ beats us into bloody conceit.\" Following this thread are poems about the sometimes-similar struggles and dreams of the less fortunate, portrayed with storybook metaphor as \"An aimless swirl to the centre of things where\/ there are dying fathers, angry mothers, cruel sisters, \/ the same old story.\" Alternating between prose, lyric, elegy and dramatic monologue, the poems of \u003ci\u003eThere Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore\u003c\/i\u003e question the nature of performance, blur the lines of identity, and illustrate the age-old hunger to find, amidst life's glitter and waste, a happy ending.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999663603863,"sku":"9780889712942","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780889712942.webp?v=1783601359","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/there-are-no-solid-gold-dancers-anymore-9780889712942","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}