{"product_id":"burning-down-disneyland-paperback","title":"Burning Down Disneyland - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKurt Olsson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love the title of this book...and I love the innovative mischief of its poems. Let it be known: a true poetic intelligence and imagination lives between its covers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Lux, author of \u003cem\u003eTo the Left of Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurning Down Disneyland\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable work--poems that move in propulsive leaps, that crackle like fire. Olsson's lines unfurl with an almost molecular agitation, zinging at the speed of synapses as sparks fly from flints. These poems are wrought in the great invisible furnace of the psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarsha de la O, author of \u003cem\u003eAntidote for Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor \u003cem\u003eBurning Down Disneyland, \u003c\/em\u003e Kurt Olsson has risked the hazards of childhood and adulthood--both \"lethal as an alley in a kung-fu movie\"--gleaning from memory's usual store of shame and humiliation quality tinder to stoke the purifying, transformative flames of his often apocalyptic imagination. The resulting poems, freed of the dross of self-pity and sentiment, are playful, absurd, vulnerable, provocative, disquieting, and at times necessarily repugnant...but they are never ordinary, and, like their author, they never flinch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Drew, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKurt Olsson \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of one previous collection of poetry, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Kills What Kills Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(Silverfish Review Press). He lives and works just outside of Washington, D.C. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752531722528,"sku":"9780991665198","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/64f38037a4b0002948e2e7c72156d55c.webp?v=1779998245","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/burning-down-disneyland-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}