{"product_id":"contrapasso-diana-s-engelmann-9798996152407","title":"Contrapasso","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Exiles are the first to know\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the world ends.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems, subtle, gently surreal in their sudden turns and juxtapositions, trace the fault lines, displacements, and polyphonies of an emigrant's life. If they are cosmopolitan-stretched between continents, languages, histories, and cultures-it is with the awareness of a world fast losing its coherence as a world. Disaster lies beneath their surfaces, and we have to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eread them slowly, then more slowly, to see how it is \u003cem\u003eour\u003c\/em\u003e disaster, too, that of a modernity crumbling under the pressure of its own contradictions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossibilities of repair also exist here. Love permeates this work with all the light and warmth of the Mediterranean Sea, home for Diana S. Engelmann and a locus of both memory and loss. Recalling the sensibilities of compatriot Serbo-Croatians Ivan Lalic and Vasko Popa, but also Americans like H.D. and James Merrill, she looks within a European tradition for the moral as well as aesthetic resources to resist the destructive forces that threaten as never before to break a fundamental human connection and care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana S. Engelmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996152407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atopon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Diana S. Engelmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48998008979711,"sku":"9798996152407","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contrapasso-diana-s-engelmann-9798996152407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}