{"product_id":"all-the-people-are-pregnant-andrew-dubois-9781773101804","title":"All the People Are Pregnant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor's a raft,\" declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present -- from \"slummy memories of streets\" to a \"a charnelhouse (?) of possible clowns\" -- defamiliarizing, critiquing, and satirizing a wide range of conversational forms in the style of Wallace Stevens and Michael Palmer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, as \"lives at time degenerate into victory competitions,\" and the poet alternates between searching for an escape from the mundane and accepting that \"merely being there together is a dull catastrophe,\" we recognize that a formally wry, almost flippant, voice has become caught in language's web. The surfaces of the poems begin to feel like thin ice, a brittle coating over which we skate for as long as it lasts. Danger lurks here: the poet must play the puppet, not the puppeteer and we must surrender, body and soul, into language as element.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew DuBois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773101803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773101804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d","brand":"Andrew DuBois","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486020153599,"sku":"9781773101804","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb8822e6-27bd-4620-b877-a6730c1abdf9.jpg?v=1778053134","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-the-people-are-pregnant-andrew-dubois-9781773101804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}