{"product_id":"atopia-sandra-simonds-9780819579041","title":"Atopia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Marxist feminist epic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtopia\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the political climate of the United States manifested through our everyday lives. Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians. \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e characterized Simonds's work as \"robust, energetic, fanciful, even baroque\" and \"a necessary counterforce to the structures of gender, power, and labor that impinge upon contemporary life.\" These poems reflect on what it means to be human, what it means to build communities within a political structure it also opposes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTallahassee. Tallahassee. Tallahassee.\u003cbr\u003eYour mist today is incredible\u003cbr\u003eas it settles on this rose garden!\u003cbr\u003eWhen the largest rose shook off its dew\u003cbr\u003eand looked at me like a cartoon, I smiled back\u003cbr\u003eand promised not to break his neck.\u003cbr\u003eAnd here we are together again, walking in a park\u003cbr\u003ethat honors dead children. A tree planted for each child\u003cbr\u003eon such a mild day in December. And how the dead\u003cbr\u003echildren stream through me, scrolls of them: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLily! Rose! Bobby!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKierkegaard says anyone who follows through\u003cbr\u003eon an idea becomes unpopular. And also\u003cbr\u003ethat a person needs a system, otherwise you\u003cbr\u003ebecome mere personality. He must not have\u003cbr\u003eknown very many poets, so prone to tyrannical\u003cbr\u003eshifts in mood. Change in the weather is equal to\u003cbr\u003edon't let me go crazy. In the car on the way\u003cbr\u003eto school Charlotte says, \"I like to be gentle\u003cbr\u003ewith nature because I like nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut my mind wouldn't rest, system-less, \u003cbr\u003eas I drive through dread: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLily! Rose! Bobby!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou're dead, you're dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSample Poem: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra Simonds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819579041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819579041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\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 6.00w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2019","brand":"Sandra Simonds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926500311295,"sku":"9780819579041","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b27a9c07-6687-445f-bd3e-ec1e6a7c1c4d.jpg?v=1681083421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/atopia-sandra-simonds-9780819579041","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}