{"product_id":"blue-stranger-with-mosaic-background-wayne-koestenbaum-9781933527604","title":"Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background","description":"Fast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background take his signature themes stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation. The luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of \"bits\" that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne Koestenbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933527609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933527604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turtle Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2012 pg. 144","brand":"Wayne Koestenbaum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983821799679,"sku":"9781933527604","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ad86da6-c187-4eca-9cdc-45c56998de61.jpg?v=1683268921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blue-stranger-with-mosaic-background-wayne-koestenbaum-9781933527604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}