{"product_id":"kansas-city-gothic-alex-tretbar-9781917617383","title":"Kansas City Gothic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKansas City Gothic \u003c\/em\u003eby Alex Tretbar is a hallucinatory, incantatory fugue of incarceration, addiction, and survival, written in jagged, recursive fragments that chart a psychic and political topography of the American Midwest. Structured around alternating 'movements' and 'codas', the collection draws from jazz, liturgy, and urban decay to form a syntax of rupture and return. Tretbar's lines are elliptical, layered with allusion, attuned to the rhythms of memory and trauma. Across spaces of incarceration, punk houses, hospice beds, and poisoned landscapes, the voice moves with stark intimacy and formal invention. The result is a darkly luminous reckoning with violence, recovery, and the unstable ground between personhood and place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Tretbar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917617380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917617383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broken Sleep Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.12d","brand":"Alex Tretbar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474554994943,"sku":"9781917617383","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36096e3c-b97f-4e50-a99d-6ad7bccfc6e4.jpg?v=1762317487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kansas-city-gothic-alex-tretbar-9781917617383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}