{"product_id":"portal-paperback-1","title":"Portal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracy Fuad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracy Fuad's second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003ePORTAL\u003c\/i\u003e, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape. \u003ci\u003ePORTAL \u003c\/i\u003edocuments a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language--and even intelligence--is no longer produced only by humans. The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad's frank, honest poetry, \u003ci\u003ePORTAL \u003c\/i\u003evibrates with pleasure and dread. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Peeling back the surfaces of words to reveal their etymologies, Fuad embraces playfulness through her formal range, engaging styles from the tersely lineated to the essayistic as she intertwines topics of replication, reproduction, technology, language, history, and biology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracy Fuad \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of\u003ci\u003e about: blank\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the winner of the Donald Hall Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, and the Berlin Senate Fund. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches at the Berlin Writers' Workshop. \u003cbr\u003e\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 0.34 x 9.45 x 6.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763721928992,"sku":"9780226831534","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5e190d22bcef33c5d0ec751b7e28aa65.webp?v=1780239699","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/portal-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}