{"product_id":"turpentine-headache-9798991833486","title":"Turpentine Headache","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeffrey Gustavson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Epiphany\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Epiphany\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens's claim, in his \"Adagia,\" that \"all poetry is experimental poetry\" serves as a tacit framework for \u003ci\u003eTurpentine Headache\u003c\/i\u003e. The book brings together the minimalist and maximalist tendencies that have defined Jeffrey Gustavson's years-long exploration of the lyric possibilities inherent in traversals of what he calls \"the jungle of language.\" In effect, the work investigates the preconditions of utterance as a source for poems, seeking to inhabit \"grammars of existence\" that seem anterior to speech itself, let alone writing. Central to the project is a serendipitous reversal: the possibility that language is not an instrument to be commanded but a force to be surrendered to. His explorations have yielded poems of unexpected refinement, intriguingly eclectic subject-matter, and an almost uncanny na�vet�--\"ancient and remote,\" he says, \"like baubles some careworn archetype has outgrown and discarded.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epiphany","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47776514408599,"sku":"9798991833486","price":1230.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798991833486.webp?v=1777996637","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/turpentine-headache-9798991833486","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}