{"product_id":"explosion-rocks-springfield-rodrigo-toscano-9780986437342","title":"Explosion Rocks Springfield","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExplosion Rocks Springfield \u003c\/i\u003eis eighty one-page iterations of the following line: The Friday evening gas explosion in Springfield leveled a strip club next to a day care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach iteration consists of analytical-philosophic queries, lyrical diffractions, and paranarrative documentary. Sixteen sub-topic variations appear. Every single word of the primary thematic line is exfoliated, extended, and exploded, multiplied, in a fugal structure, seeking the effects of content density, tension, and return. Continual re-figuration of all themata invites the reader to experience a pleasurable engagement with a material transparency that is neither prepackaged (\"found\") nor fancied from thin air (\"inspired\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is explosion to a slab of drywall?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is \"drywall\" exactly?\u003cbr\u003eHEIGH-HO!\u003cbr\u003eWhy do people strip?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is \"day care\"? Why \"day\"?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is night care?\u003cbr\u003eWhy daylight why daylight why daylight.\u003cbr\u003eWhat is \"care\" exactly?\u003cbr\u003eGas. Wherefrom gas? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised in southern California, experimental poet, playwright, and labor activist \u003cb\u003eRodrigo Toscano \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eCollapsible Poetics Theater \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series, and \u003ci\u003eDeck of Deeds \u003c\/i\u003e(2012). His work has been widely translated and anthologized; his radio pieces have aired on stations across the country. Toscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodrigo Toscano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0986437344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780986437342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fence Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 7.40w x 0.40d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rodrigo Toscano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43927077814527,"sku":"9780986437342","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7b549510-3f5e-48bc-8f8d-ee3a3da7c781.jpg?v=1681086696","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explosion-rocks-springfield-rodrigo-toscano-9780986437342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}