{"product_id":"boiled-owls-azad-sharma-9781643622354","title":"Boiled Owls","description":"A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer's compulsion to\u003cbr\u003ewrite.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoiled Owls\u003c\/i\u003e refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Azad Sharma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643622358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643622354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Azad Sharma","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966468157695,"sku":"9781643622354","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60d4a70c-ecdf-4e3b-8adc-4efc31ed1260.jpg?v=1711159933","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boiled-owls-azad-sharma-9781643622354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}