{"product_id":"foreign-object-steven-teref-9780942544374","title":"Foreign Object","description":"Steven Teref's hybrid collection \u003ci\u003eForeign Object\u003c\/i\u003e follows in the lineage of his Balkan influences Vasko Popa, Novica Tadic, and Charles Simic. Teref populates his poems, experimental verse play, and translations with a horrific horde of \"nightmarians,\" ranging from the Slavic folkloric monster Baba Yaga to an all-too-real pedophiliac Babysitter. This collection heals yet disturbs as it slowly grows into its cancerous crescendo - the \"foreign object.\" Teref effortlessly switches between lyric and narrative modes through one-line poems, prose poems, and found poems. In Teref's hands, his hometown of Somerville, MA, sheds its current hip veneer to expose its original working class Irish roots mired in alcoholism and domestic violence, so excruciating, that it can exist only through the figurative language of Slavic mythology, Coleridge's Geraldine, and Musil's \u003ci\u003eMan Without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e. Ending this collection are Teref's translations of Serbian poet Novica Tadic - an appropriate homage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Teref\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0942544374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780942544374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Negative Capability Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.21d","brand":"Steven Teref","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438046327039,"sku":"9780942544374","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df0dc55c-7763-4626-b533-66223f345130.jpg?v=1777168438","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-object-steven-teref-9780942544374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}