{"product_id":"i-boombox-robert-glck-9780937804964","title":"I, Boombox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in English.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Gl?k's new book \u003cem\u003eI, Boombox\u003c\/em\u003e is a long poem fashioned from the author's misreadings. In that sense, it's a queer autobiography in which Gl?k dreams on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rimbaud infamously claimed that I is an other, but for Bob I is a flicker of error, or a wandering ear that invents. He has made a home for several decades of errant listening in this sinuous long poem, which light heartedly teases the modernist tradition it also subverts. In true mock-heroic manner, Bob reveals from his gay marble desk how God's laughter glides in and out of garden festival, action film, and sublet alike. I have been waiting for this book for years and it sweetly exceeds all of my hopes.\"--Lisa Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eI, Boombox\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Gl?k makes it clear that dreams are as real as the spurts of sentences we use to discover them. Scoring the 'umbilical\/indescribabilia' that accompanies unconscious feeling into a thin strip of thickly montaged verse, the 'invisible speakers' that populate Gl?k's poem--their misreadings and cant half-truths, their headlines and lies--turn dream's content into poetic foam. In this mind's eye--the 'suburb' is blithely rendered into a thing 'superb, ' and 'loneliness' roars with the face of a 'lioness \/and intimacy.' \u003cem\u003eI, Boombox\u003c\/em\u003e is a poem of frothy divinations tempered by the slapstick of speech. It suggests that desire without sense is desire nevertheless--and this is a delight to understand.\"--Shiv Kotecha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. LGBTQ+ Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Gl?k\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0937804967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780937804964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Roof Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.55d","brand":"Robert Gl?k","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133053038847,"sku":"9780937804964","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c0ed331-06fc-462e-bbd9-06ebb00107d1.jpg?v=1687483813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-boombox-robert-glck-9780937804964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}