{"product_id":"fluttertongue-5-steven-ross-smith-9780888013781","title":"Fluttertongue 5: Everything Appears to Shine with Mossy Splendour","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs he talking about botany or...hmmm...ahhh...well now. The very act of reading Steven Ross Smith' fifth volume of his Fluttertongue series draws shock, secret smiles, and out-loud exclamations from the most stoic, stuffed-shirt readers of poetry. Rife and ribald, his disjunctive prose-poem forms contain stimulation for all five senses. Jumping off the page in explorations of joined oppositions, the richly-worded poems reveal beyond-intimate experiences of the physical world, exposing snapshots of human experience and relationships with nature. Personal-impersonal juxtapositions, syntactic structure, and randomness appear here in disjunctive prose poem form to express primal-scream poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach page sets a prose-poem atop a sly and sensuous moss-like footer that unfolds at the bottom of each page, giving its own experience of wink-and-nudge word play. The book becomes a distraction in itself, tempting the reader to peek ahead, disregarding proper book-reading etiquette.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith Smith's irresistible word-play and a deep and complex poetic sensibility, Fluttertongue 5 is a rich, rewarding and delightful read. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Ross-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0888013787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780888013781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turnstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Steven Ross-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483735798015,"sku":"9780888013781","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a0899210-b7eb-4f16-8156-7cbd419b3352.jpg?v=1778040316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fluttertongue-5-steven-ross-smith-9780888013781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}