{"product_id":"huncke-rick-mullin-9780989898454","title":"Huncke: A Poem \u0026 Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2008, this second edition of Huncke is a reconsideration. Many of the stanzas have been improved with care taken to keep the original narrative on track. That narrative, which uses Herbert Huncke as a scaffold for a gloss on American social issues, art, and history, has been extended with the \"discovery\" of a lost canto. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An epic narrative poem where time is a many-layered thing, Huncke is a world-in-a-poem, where its titular hero\/anti-hero, inspiration and name-giver to the Beat Poets, and low-life\/high-life, infamous, indefinable, freewheeling rebel-without-a-category icon appears in many dimensions: in memory, in history, in the here-and-now, in poetry, in dialogue with \"angels\" and \"ghosts\", in holographic animations, in real and fictitious characters of every stripe, all contained within the constraints of a medieval form (ottava rima to the cognoscenti) that creates the sense of a forest or a feast of cantos winding their way, stoned-soul fashion, through haunted catacombs or buzzing \"red-yellow\" honeycombs, an underground world that all begins at a poetry reading attended by Mullin himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is clearly not the sort of poetry that \"molders in the stacks \/ of storage rooms,\" but the kind that actively creates a world whose ecosystem can't help but stimulate a heightened awareness of the interaction between life, politics, and art; an ecosystem that also contains, for your reading pleasure a funhouse, where you will definitely get deliriously lost.\" (Siham Karami)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rick Mullin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0989898458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989898454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Exot Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d","brand":"Rick Mullin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579631419647,"sku":"9780989898454","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b97f3298-5182-4d89-85b4-8daae7901c86.jpg?v=1763875541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/huncke-rick-mullin-9780989898454","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}