{"product_id":"book-of-knots-jay-gamble-9781771661997","title":"Book of Knots","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Auden famously said, \"poetry does nothing.\" It is a genre of failure, and as such poetry is rich with failure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Knots\u003c\/i\u003e, a new book-length long poem by Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble, seeks to engage with life's failure, by building 'a nothing' out of something, where formal innovation, including exhaustive \"single sentence\" pieces, noun-less poems, interruption, computerized homolinguistic translation, and procedural poems, all contribute to a Mobius ouroboros self-consuming trajectory of impossibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Think of \u003ci\u003eBook of Knots\u003c\/i\u003e as a kind of \u003ci\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e of poetry: at its centre is nothing, and its playful approach to critical negation results in puzzles and riddles that may yield no answers, but are richer from the asking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Gamble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771661992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771661997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\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 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Jay Gamble","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078618902783,"sku":"9781771661997","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e919f39d-af65-4517-a06e-295e3538a78e.jpg?v=1685476535","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-knots-jay-gamble-9781771661997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}