{"product_id":"algorithms-john-allman-9781935835080","title":"Algorithms","description":"John Allman's prose poems in Algorithms go forth in a kind of wanderjahr to discover or be discovered. These prose poems possess a different kind of urgency, a vitality that almost defies boundaries, a freedom to span discourses and leap across vocabularies. Allman is free to follow his mindful wanderings, landing us in Croatia in 1991, navigating with Columbus in 1492, witnessing a drug bust, watching his wife's root canal, and examining the frozen remains of princess in Siberia. At the same time, the notion of an algorithm, the idea that, given a certain origin, a thing in process must become x or y, provides a way of understanding that each poem encompasses a fate, destined to become only itself-in essence, that boundaries are inherent in being. Ultimately, this points to Allman's unresolved conundrum: the desire to be something beyond one's self, but one can never escape one's own being, and its limits-for what then would I and Not-I be?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Allman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935835084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935835080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quale Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"John Allman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440143610111,"sku":"9781935835080","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2e68a7b-9757-44df-8cf1-f0a1e7f84f7b.jpg?v=1777180494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/algorithms-john-allman-9781935835080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}