{"product_id":"modern-and-normal-karen-solie-9781894078474","title":"Modern and Normal","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvade your eye. Try to see as others do\u003cbr\u003e what is desired or refused. What went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e Or right, then wrong. Objectively, what hangs.\u003cbr\u003e Pull yourself together. Years are neither kind\u003cbr\u003e nor cruel. You drag on. The girl is gone.\u003cbr\u003e Consider that it might be time to call in\u003cbr\u003e a professional. Blood is fearless, runs\u003cbr\u003e to meet a touch, indiscriminate, remembering\u003cbr\u003e the first time it fell in love with the world, unaware\u003cbr\u003e that now you are alone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \"Mirror\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eModern and Normal, \u003c\/i\u003e Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level, exploring conceptual and perceptual states of in-betweenness - for example, between what is perceived and what is actually there, or between and among the patterns the world repeats from the cell to the structure of the universe - to find points of intersection. Solie finds a middle ground between the discourses of the hard sciences and the intuitive, a realm of weird overlap wherein lie questions of probability, fate, determinism, chance, luck, and faith. She writes about fractals and physics, but also about bar bands, broken hearts, and the trappings of desire. Some splendid landscape poems celebrate nature while mourning the way in which it's often exploited and used. Once again Karen Solie offers readers her lovely dexterity and skill in poems which entertain as they move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Solie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1894078470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781894078474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.56w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 31","brand":"Karen Solie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420190822655,"sku":"9781894078474","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_013add59-202e-450f-8bd1-d9ca90e09a85.jpg?v=1734633911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-and-normal-karen-solie-9781894078474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}