{"product_id":"expressway-sina-queyras-9781552452165","title":"Expressway","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award for Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEchoing the pastoral and elegiac modes of the Romantic poets, whose reverence for nature never prevented them from addressing it with all the ideas and sensibilities their times allowed, Sina Queyras's stunning collection explores the infrastructures and means of modern mobility. Addressing the human project not so much as something imposed on nature but as an increasingly disturbing activity within it, \u003ci\u003eExpressway\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the paradox of modern mobility: the more roads and connections we build, the more separate we feel. 'Cleanse the doors of perception, ' Blake urged, and with that in mind, Queyras has written a bravely lyrical critique of our ethical and ecological imprint, a legacy easily blamed on corporations and commerce, but one we've allowed, through our tacit acquiescence, to overwhelm us. Every brush stroke, every bolt and nut, every form and curve in our networks of oil and rubber, every thought and its material outcome -- each decision can make or unmake us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sina Queyras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1552452166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552452165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 38","brand":"Sina Queyras","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372411146495,"sku":"9781552452165","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89b094fe-6b16-4c1c-8bb3-b6efe0b6b2c1.jpg?v=1732725870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/expressway-sina-queyras-9781552452165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}