{"product_id":"handshake-claire-albrecht-9781922571328","title":"handshake","description":"\u003cp\u003eSopping wet, this is a book pickled in sweat, salt water, and tears. The pages of \u003cem\u003ehandshake\u003c\/em\u003e glitter and sparkle, crystalline and blue. They focus and unfocus on the sorrows, but also the sticky pleasures and absurd moments that constitute a lifetime. Albrecht's kaleidoscopic poems and photographs will shake your hand and leave it damp, like the salty lick of the ocean. \u003cstrong\u003e- Anupama Pilbrow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbrecht's tautly composed intermedial work holds open breathing room for our climate's changing atmosphere, which blows through, shaking the camera, blurring lines, breaking borders, to map an (eco)poetics of separation-in-connection, the only pulse that counts. Taken on their own, the poems feel utterly contemporary, while taken in concert and in tension with the digitally manipulated photography, they carve out an aesthetic space ahead of their time. \u003cstrong\u003e- Jonathan Skinner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Albrecht's \u003cem\u003ehandshake \u003c\/em\u003etilts, precariously and joyously, between a series of poems and photographs, text and empty space, its gaps and transitions becoming places to breathe, to pause amid today's turmoil of crises and anxieties. The poems and photographs don't explain each other, yet there's something compelling and uncanny in the way they interrupt and unsettle, as they gesture past the immediate to something larger. At the same time, the book's poems are fully grounded: sweaty, salty, fleshy, smoky, and naked (a lot), alternately provoking and playful, cheeky and sincere, uninhibited and seriously articulate. \u003cem\u003ehandshake\u003c\/em\u003e is the real deal: irresistible, disarmingly candid, highly charged, genuinely exciting. \u003cstrong\u003e- Jill Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Albrecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922571326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922571328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Claire Albrecht","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054257336575,"sku":"9781922571328","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df8dc0d0-5f97-47f4-a735-a0334d1c4751.jpg?v=1685028914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/handshake-claire-albrecht-9781922571328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}