{"product_id":"a-symmetry-poems-hardcover","title":"A Symmetry: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAri Banias\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Ari Banias's thrilling and discursive second collection, \u003cem\u003eA Symmetry\u003c\/em\u003e, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, Banias contends with the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancestral memory in the architectures of daily experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefusing the nostalgias of classicism and the trap of authenticity, these poems turn instead to a Greece of garbage strikes and throwaway tourist pleasures, where bad gender means bad grammar, and a California coast where mansions offer themselves to be crushed under your thumb. A piece of citrus hurled into one poem's apartment window rolls downhill and escapes the narrative altogether in another. Farmers destroy their own olive trees, strangers mesmerize us as they fold sheets into perfect corners, \"artists who design border wall prototypes are artists \/ who say they \"leave politics out of it.'\" Climate collapse and debt accelerate, and desire transforms itself in the ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom within psychic interiors and iconic sites--the museum, the strip mall, the discotheque, the sea--\u003cem\u003eA Symmetry\u003c\/em\u003e attends to the intimate, social proportions of our material world and discerns the simmering potential of a present that \"can be some other way. And is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.49 x 5.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767897555232,"sku":"9780393868135","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6f5c98b1efd90e846c91101e05a41a95.webp?v=1780319831","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-symmetry-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}