{"product_id":"said-like-reeds-or-things-paperback","title":"Said Like Reeds or Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Truscott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarning\u003c\/b\u003e: this book may encourage a series of ungrammatical thoughts \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the poetic landscape of Mark Truscott, where less is more than you bargained for. \u003ci\u003eSaid Like Reeds or Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of micropoetic and linguistic koans. With a quirky, off-centre sense of humour, these poems uncover a language that has malfunctioned only to find itself in the form of a gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinimalist in form, these small gatherings of words, a.k.a. 'poems', seek strangeness in familiar language; their effect is harmonic dissonance within the mind - like an overturned toy box in your path to the television set, these poems are a fresh and amusing diversion from the everyday from which they are derived. Mysteriously entertaining and precise, these succinct, visual lyrics say as much about the world as they do about their own status as objects for reading, and they persist in the hilarity and contemplation of their own enigmatic possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Mark Truscott's \u003ci\u003eSaid Like Reeds or Things\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a mischievous conservationist with a shadow of Basho in the mix. It's sometimes snappy, sometimes calm, and always an exhilarating tease. This is the place where little pieces of perfection ride along a sublime horizon line.' - Lisa Jarnot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.78 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771656536352,"sku":"9781552451458","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f6079d864fbaa57736caed2fe0721ac0.webp?v=1780390439","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/said-like-reeds-or-things-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}