{"product_id":"cmok-to-you-to-nina-zivancevic-9780615988047","title":"CMOK to YOu To: A Correspondence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCMOK to YOu To\u003c\/i\u003e presents the 2015 email correspondence of the Serbian-born poet, art critic and playwright Nina Zivančevic and Canadian cultural theorist Marc James Léger. In December of 2014 Léger invited Zivančevic to contribute a text to the second volume of the book he was editing, \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today. \u003c\/i\u003eTaken with each other's idiosyncrasies, their correspondence gradually shifted from amiable professional exchanges and the eventual failure to organize a scholarly event to that of collaborating on some kind of writing project. Several titles were attempted for the eventual book - \u003ci\u003eMarshmallow Muse: The Exact and Irreverent Letters of MJL and NZ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Jelly Bean, or, I Already Am Eating from the Trash Can All the Time: The Name of This Trash Can Is Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Secreted Correspondence of Mme Chatelet and Voltaire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI'm Taken: The E-Pistolary Poetry of Kit le Minx and Cad\u003c\/i\u003e - but none of these proved to be more telling than \u003ci\u003eCMOK\u003c\/i\u003e, the Serbian word for kiss, which sums up the authors' quest for \"harmony\" in an altogether imperfect world and literary medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, names of real people were changed in order to protect those who might otherwise be offended by the unguarded and absurdist commentary of its authors. Despite this fact, it is the fragility and elasticity of the writers' superegos that is tested as they vacillate from personal registers to intellectual strata. At once a cis-avant-gardist's exploration of anti-art and a poet's claim to some weak form of autonomy, \u003ci\u003eCMOK \u003c\/i\u003edelights in both the pleasures of casual email and the sublime realizations of Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuation. \u003ci\u003eCMOK \u003c\/i\u003eis a hybrid genre and a quest into the real of virtuality that defies the literary standards. Its authors, who never met, answer one another's basic needs and questions, separated as they are by time zones and the ocean, but not culturally or spiritually.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nina Zivancevic,Marc James Leger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615988040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615988047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.04d","brand":"Nina Zivancevic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435616055551,"sku":"9780615988047","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bbe1f4f-e50a-4d67-8c54-4ea51b67e9e8.jpg?v=1777151550","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cmok-to-you-to-nina-zivancevic-9780615988047","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}