{"product_id":"look-slimmer-instantly-jerome-sala-9781932360721","title":"Look Slimmer Instantly!: Poems","description":"Poetry is often thought of as a way to escape our blatantly commercial, media-ridden matrix of a world. But what if it turns out that poetry itself is just another media effect? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSala's poems explore this scary idea by feeding off the very media they critique. And in doing so, they make a discovery - that even our most mundane and oppressive ideologies are infected with the poetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLook Slimmer Instantly! covers a terrain that doesn't often appear in poetry - from the worship of money, to the erotics of patriotism, to the profundities achieved by bad taste. On stage in this book, you'll find apocalyptic allegories, the existential musings of porn stars, the deconstructive fury of self-help books - not to mention a glimpse of what poetry will look like when the genre acquires its first major ad campaign. Never above his material, the author's tone throughout is gleefully crass, vulgar and nasty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSala was once praised as an \"honorable hysteric\" by poet\/critic Peter Schjeldahl. This new book takes his provocations one step further, and offers entertainment, and poetry, of a high order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerome Sala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932360727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932360721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.58h x 5.56w x 0.28d","brand":"Jerome Sala","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519654473983,"sku":"9781932360721","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ecd9a4f-092a-419c-9796-4f35f59b0bc2.jpg?v=1778738040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/look-slimmer-instantly-jerome-sala-9781932360721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}