{"product_id":"heart-of-damage-marza-negroni-9781998336425","title":"Heart of Damage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrated Argentinian poet María Negroni explores her relationships to her mother and her writing through a veritable lash of language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of Damage\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"portrait of the artist as a young woman\" that explores the mysteries of the mother-daughter bond and speculates about a link between trauma and poetic genesis. The mother in this narrative is a toxic, magnetic presence, shifting chameleonically from villain to victim--she is a pivot, a point of departure into investigations of writing's relationship to silence, exile, politics, feminism, and grief.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstructed as a mosaic of memories, dreams, fantastic and speculative scenes, and \u003ci\u003ears poetica\u003c\/i\u003e, Negroni stands with Maggie Nelson, Tove Ditelvsen, Barbara Guest, and other unclassifiable writers who have delved deeply into the complex relationship between life and writing. Through a narrative that is at once direct and voluptuous, Negroni uses the intimate note, the astute observation, the political chronicle, the ballad of exile, and the gloomy song of mourning to write a faithful \"census of illegible scenes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e María Negroni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998336425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998336425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Assembly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"María Negroni","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742208667903,"sku":"9781998336425","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heart-of-damage-marza-negroni-9781998336425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}