{"product_id":"empire-of-dreams-giannina-braschi-9780300057959","title":"Empire of Dreams","description":"Straddling the line between fiction and poetry, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e speaks of Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi's love affair with New York City--her imagined social, political, erotic, and linguistic relationships to the place that has acted as a magnet to Puerto Ricans for so many years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work deals with issues of performance, gender ambiguity, and marginality. It is concerned with the boundaries of language and the possibilities of cross-dressing poetry as commercials, diary, tabloids, gossip, confessions, videos, autobiography, musicals, and manifesto. Characters turn into other characters. Clowns, buffoons, shepherds, lead soldiers, magicians, madmen, witches, fortune-tellers, and artists perform their fantasies in the city streets. An antinovel within the book satirizes the writer's role in the modern age and calls for a revolution of poetry. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal citizens, as the narrator is led through a seeming phantasmagoria of internal and external trials in order to experience the center--of political power, of meaning, of feeling, and of personal identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giannina Braschi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300057954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300057959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.64w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/1994 pg. 237","brand":"Giannina Braschi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913584247039,"sku":"9780300057959","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_976edb6d-9c0a-4bf3-87e0-3f23a198e08d.jpg?v=1680621197","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empire-of-dreams-giannina-braschi-9780300057959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}