{"product_id":"in-thailand-with-the-apostles-joanna-sit-9780923389925","title":"In Thailand With The Apostles","description":"\u003cp\u003e What dreams of grandeur, Joanna Sit asks, make us fly? Here's what I know now: the pilgrimmage to love \u0026amp; knowing begins \u003ci\u003eIn Thailand With the Apostles\u003c\/i\u003e. Wallace Stevens famously remarked that the great poems of heaven \u0026amp; hell have already been written, but not the great poem of the earth. Yet read these gnarly chronicles: every romping chthonic tercet opens up new terrain. Imagine if \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e detoured through Canterbury, doubled back toward \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e, then crashed somewhere between the \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e-that's In Thailand's visionary itinerary. Missing nothing, never flinching, the poet survives the rainbow of her will-damned transfigured past betrayers, ex-abusers, two-faced lovers \u0026amp; friends-as the exotic bleeds into the macabre, the erotic into the ascetic, the scrofulous into the pristine. The road of excess may lead to the palace of wisdom, or maybe to Dante's third rung, but Sit \u0026amp; apostles slouch toward satori hewing their merry way through ennui \u0026amp; ecstasy. These are profoundly holy poems for our fractured postmodern days. What an exuberant, harrowing trek, \u0026amp; what an heroic descent! \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMike Sweeney\u003c\/b\u003e, Fairfield University, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Memory of the Fast Break\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eOctagon Commonweal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Sit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 092338992X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780923389925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spuyten Duyvil Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joanna Sit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435718160639,"sku":"9780923389925","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36111043-7358-46d7-a9dc-dda7b71de6cc.jpg?v=1777152243","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-thailand-with-the-apostles-joanna-sit-9780923389925","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}