{"product_id":"crookedness-tsvetanka-elenkova-9781848616868","title":"Crookedness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world according to Tsvetanka Elenkova is both lucid and hieratic. In it, a lover's eye is 'a disc on a chain \/with the god of the sun \/the window casts on the wall'; but love itself is an 'Altar' on which the lovers are 'lying crosswise'. The poet's own narrative eye keeps shifting viewpoint - and perspective - not for the sake of it but to create depth and meaning: 'The other side of perspective \/is dimension'. It's all expressed with economy and the utmost clarity: yet that clarity is deceptive. These poems, too, depend on your point of view: 'Reflection is capture' indeed, and reflection may be not only the untroubled mirror image, but the pause and re-handling of meditation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Another way to say all this is that Elenkova is a religious mystic;  ...] She lives in the world of cars, mobile phones and city parks, and has an imagination stuffed with cultural riches,  ...b]ut she also lives in a poetic world  ...] of religious mystery, mortality, love and desire. This mystical verse dives repeatedly into the given, and discovers there a world of symbol and - perhaps above all - movement. It is not Gerard Manley Hopkins's search for 'inscape', but instead an apprehension that from moment to moment forms itself into symbolic codes - and then releases those codes into the material, sensual world. --Fiona Sampson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tsvetanka Elenkova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848616864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848616868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Tsvetanka Elenkova","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941047206143,"sku":"9781848616868","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ea5d8283-a94d-4416-a001-9bfefb6c7660.jpg?v=1681450601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crookedness-tsvetanka-elenkova-9781848616868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}