{"product_id":"kim-kardashians-marriage-sam-riviere-9780571321438","title":"Kim Kardashian's Marriage","description":"\u003cb\u003eA captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy and exposure from a Forward Prize-winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  The 72 poems in \u003ci\u003eKim Kardashian's Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted for 72 days, and was seen by some as illustrative of the performative spectacle of celebrity life. Whatever the truth of this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Riviere has used the furore as a point of ignition, deploying terms from Kardashian's make-up regimen to explore surfaces and self-consciousness, presentation and obfuscation. His approach eschews a dependence upon confessional modes of writing to explore what kind of meaning lies in impersonal methods of creation. The process of enquiry involves the composition method itself; the poems have been produced by harvesting and manipulating the results of search engines to create a poetry of part-collage, part-improvisation. The effect is as refractive as it is reflective, and disturbs the slant on biography until we are left with a pixellation of the first person. \u003ci\u003eKim Kardashian's Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy, and exposure, and an uncanny commemoration of the contemporary moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam Riviere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0571321437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571321438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Sam Riviere","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988187578623,"sku":"9780571321438","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a40a4097-3d4f-4e93-9d9d-64b61cb0dac5.jpg?v=1683293106","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kim-kardashians-marriage-sam-riviere-9780571321438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}