{"product_id":"based-on-actual-events-robert-moore-9781550654554","title":"Based on Actual Events","description":"Taking its inspiration from Melville's famous line \"If man will strike, strike through the mask,\" \u003ci\u003eBased on Actual Events\u003c\/i\u003e punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a \"a realist in fabulist clothing,\" Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a nostalgia for sublimity. His project is to find new frames of reference for our estrangement from the world. With each burst of invention and stylistic high-spiritedness (\"So we reverse engineered the awesome and all we got \/ was this lousy poesy\"), \u003ci\u003eBased on Actual Events\u003c\/i\u003e adds up to be Moore's best book yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550654551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550654554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signal Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.20w x 0.30d","brand":"Robert Moore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485609439487,"sku":"9781550654554","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f31f374e-8e9a-4840-a2b0-2f9fe2871ee9.jpg?v=1778050358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/based-on-actual-events-robert-moore-9781550654554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}