{"product_id":"inter-arma-lauren-shufran-9781934200681","title":"Inter Arma","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis debut collection takes its title from a maxim of Cicero's that, translated loosely as \"In times of war the law falls silent,\" has been effective in recent discourse around the erosion of citizens' rights. Lauren Shufran employs a sprightly, activated boot-camp cadence in her metrically rigorous poems to look closely at the uncomfortable positions our military interventions put us in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiffing on military chants, propulsive rhythms whereby submission and domination are inculcated, these chatty, allusive, classically informed poems explore analogies of terrorism and homosexuality in the context of our militarized media, our mediated military. Internalized rhymes, lyric baubles, and glittery, hyphenated memes insist on trainings and missions wherein heroes and villains are sodomized and lionized, penetrated and perpetuated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Afterwards They Photographed my Veteran Face, f\/4 at 500\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe aperture where pussyfooting loses depth\u003cbr\u003e Of field like summary exposures. Doubt-\u003cbr\u003eFul of my fealty I'd procured a honey who\u003cbr\u003e Was made of honey-indicators: form\u003cbr\u003eIn cock and crockery. I souse his dish with glaze\u003cbr\u003e To make it lachrymose and vitreous, \u003cbr\u003eGet myriad shaft fractures in his forearms and\u003cbr\u003e His saucers, and high incidences of\u003cbr\u003eThrow-Downer's Sprain from over-wedging. I put the\u003cbr\u003e Clay up on the wheel; I make a hole there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Shufran \u003c\/b\u003ereceived an MA in English and MFA in poetry from San Francisco State University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she studies Renaissance lyric and religious enthusiasm in seventeenth-century England. This is her first full-length book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Shufran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934200689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934200681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fence Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Lauren Shufran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075166630143,"sku":"9781934200681","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4bb4b003-60fa-4296-b473-6cf0890b9065.jpg?v=1685457986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inter-arma-lauren-shufran-9781934200681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}