{"product_id":"a-camera-obscura-carl-marcum-9781597094818","title":"A Camera Obscura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*HONORABLE MENTION in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - One Author - English*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the edge of a singularity and across desert roads at night, \u003cem\u003eA Camera Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e teleports its readers through deep space nebulae and the constructs of cityscapes to arrive at what it means to \"see.\" Lovers embrace in sonnets and meditations move through artworks and Hubble Telescope images as these poems employ ekphrastic visions to balance the profound displacements in the most mundane aspects of our lives with science, fact, faith, and song. In the ceremonial blades of Aztec sacrifice and the anonymity of undocumented lives, these poems accrete into a solar system of images seen true, seen askance, seen in error, seen entire. \u003cem\u003eA Camera Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e is the dark room of the imagination where sīgnum--the sign, the act--becomes the tangible testaments of living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Marcum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1597094811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597094818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.39d","brand":"Carl Marcum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990923215103,"sku":"9781597094818","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f31f1294-9e23-4dbb-9375-cd13d9af680a.jpg?v=1683307444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-camera-obscura-carl-marcum-9781597094818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}