{"product_id":"cosmic-sadness-jean-portante-9781917617857","title":"Cosmic Sadness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCosmic Sadness\u003c\/em\u003e gathers five sequences in which Jean Portante's imagination expands to an interstellar scale, Zoë Skoulding's facing-page translation carrying the French of \u003cem\u003eLa Tristesse Cosmique\u003c\/em\u003e into the English language without settling its restlessness. Migratory birds, departing trains, roses, and leaking cosmic plumbing recur as a vocabulary of movement between north and south, between the human and a universe that exceeds it. Grief here is dispersed rather than confessional, pressed by the loss of Italian parents and the fracturing of an earthquake-struck city whose propped-up streets become a method, syntax continually jolted out of true. Punctuation follows the run of images rather than the logic of sentences, drawing the book's preoccupations with language, etymology, and migration into a wider literary cosmos and reordering its world at every scale, so that rupture reads as transformation rather than finality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Portante,Zoë Skoulding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917617852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917617857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broken Sleep Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Jean Portante","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852930461951,"sku":"9781917617857","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cosmic-sadness-jean-portante-9781917617857","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}