{"product_id":"intruder-bardia-sinaee-9781487008710","title":"Intruder","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBemused and droll, paranoid and demagogic, Sinaee's much-anticipated debut collection presents a world beset by precarity, illness, and human sprawl. Anxiety, hospitalization, and body paranoia recur in the poems' imagery -- Sinaee went through two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy in his mid-twenties, documented in the vertiginous multipart prose poem \"Twelve Storeys\" -- making \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e a book that seems especially timely, notably in the dreamlike, minimalist sequence \"Half-Life,\" written during the lockdown in Toronto in spring 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProgressing from plain-spoken dispatches about city life to lucid nightmares of the calamities of history, the poems in \u003cem\u003eIntruder\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately grapple with, and even embrace, the daily undertaking of living through whatever the hell it is we're living through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bardia Sinaee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487008716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487008710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Bardia Sinaee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990863839487,"sku":"9781487008710","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ef7bf00-fae7-476f-9c54-bc4bfd8030c1.jpg?v=1683307124","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intruder-bardia-sinaee-9781487008710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}