{"product_id":"living-systems-michael-brennan-9781925735741","title":"Living Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Systems\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates poetry's unique capacity to challenge and make new our experience of the world. At the heart of this collection is a reaffirmation of poetry as essential kit, as an art form that deepens and expands how we might perceive the world and know each other. The poems gathered here offer an alternative to the streams, echo chambers and silos of contemporary media and return the reader to the deep flow and entanglement of human consciousness and language unique to poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1999, Vagabond Press has quietly grown to become one of the leading publishers of poetry and poetry in translation in Australia, creating a transnational list that includes some of the key poets and poetry translators of the Asia Pacific region. Marking twenty-five years of hardscrabble independent small press publishing, \u003cem\u003eLiving Systems\u003c\/em\u003e showcases poets from Australia and across Asia Pacific, and offers a snapshot of poetry, poetics and life in all its complexity, nuance and possibility at the start of the twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith over 400 pages of poetry from around 170 poets and translators from Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, America, New Zealand, Mexico and elsewhere, \u003cem\u003eLiving Systems\u003c\/em\u003e marks twenty-five years of small press publishing by Vagabond Press and celebrates poetry and individual human creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific \u003c\/em\u003e(International edition)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVagabond Press 25th Anniversary Anthology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2024. 152mm x 229mm. 440pp. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-74-1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Brennan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1925735745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781925735741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vagabond Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Michael Brennan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437146550527,"sku":"9781925735741","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4656c0ea-5fd2-42a7-9b65-6f5afbd2f03a.jpg?v=1777160180","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-systems-michael-brennan-9781925735741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}