{"product_id":"madness-gabriel-ojeda-sague-9781643621173","title":"Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMadness \u003c\/i\u003epays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST for the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in a speculative present, \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e alternates between poetry and editorial commentary to investigate how language spans a life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e is a selected poems for a fictional poet: Luis Montes-Torres, a gay Cuban exile who makes a minor name for himself in the world of poetry before the contours of his ordinary life become overwhelming, stilted, and impossible. This is a story of the unpredictable wavering between anxiety and attachment, between the political and the personal, that accompanies any American life marked by difference. \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e is a study in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriel Ojeda-Sague\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643621173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643621173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Gabriel Ojeda-Sague","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994592510207,"sku":"9781643621173","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7fe9e282-87c6-4724-b8fe-b383fed026d5.jpg?v=1683331068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/madness-gabriel-ojeda-sague-9781643621173","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}