{"product_id":"sleepers-awake-poems-paperback","title":"Sleepers Awake: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOli Hazzard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called \"exciting, necessary, and new.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSleepers Awake\u003c\/i\u003e, Oli Hazzard's third collection, emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract \"the ore \/ from boredom,\" as memory --personal, familial, social, historical--and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space, and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting is here too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe title, borrowed from the Lutheran hymn that inspired a Bach cantata, catches the book's dreamy, kaleidoscopic, cross-temporal dialogues. By way of satirical, allusive, tender, hopeful poems, \u003ci\u003eSleepers Awake\u003c\/i\u003e makes spaces for intimacy with the reader, arguing \"through an off-key melody \/ for the jovial texture of batshit relations, for the pleasure of live-drawing in skeptical company.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOli Hazzard \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of two books of poems, \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Windows \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlotter\u003c\/i\u003e; a book of literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras; and a novel, Lorem Ipsum\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of St. Andrews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770351780128,"sku":"9780374616182","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/21f3ec062d46fdc1b5da1ed16d6c96d3.webp?v=1780370011","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sleepers-awake-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}