{"product_id":"metaphysical-licks-gregoire-pam-dick-9781771660556","title":"Metaphysical Licks","description":"\u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Licks, \u003c\/i\u003e a hybrid prose-poem\/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick  a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of \u003ci\u003eDelinquent\u003c\/i\u003e (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brothers, and betroths her (unhappily) to Nietzsche. Crossing New York City with Vienna and Berlin, it composes dissonance from urban moments, narrative fragments, and philosophical remarks. The inventive, androgynous, sexually loose (and intermittently incestuous) persona of Greta expresses itself through the surreal and haunted imagery of Trakl's poems. Readers will be drawn to Dick's combination of girl\/punk\/genderqueer rebelliousness and intensely questioning thought, in a text where creativity alone offers escape and exultation, and subjectivity keeps changing its sounds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregoire Pam Dick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771660554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771660556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Gregoire Pam Dick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069199905023,"sku":"9781771660556","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9a29c69-8e66-4e00-81eb-ef89c6658e60.jpg?v=1685423378","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphysical-licks-gregoire-pam-dick-9781771660556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}