{"product_id":"neutral-bill-shute-9798509522093","title":"Neutral","description":"NEUTRAL is a one hundred twenty page open-field poem, extending the format\/technique used in Shute's previous poetry books TWO SELF-PORTRAITS (After Murillo), COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES, TOMORROW WON'T BRING THE RAIN, and RIVERSIDE FUGUE. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNEUTRAL is a more expansive work than those, presented on a larger canvas, influenced by the minimal approach of poet Frank Samperi and composer Jürg Frey, along with the diptych paintings of Andy Warhol. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShute's work is rooted in the post-Projective Verse poetics of Blackburn, Berrigan, and Eigner, but completely his own. The poetry echoes his work with such avant-garde musician-composers as Derek Rogers, Mari Rubio (aka More Eaze) and Alfred 23 Harth, while being steeped in the culture and particulars of the present-day Gulf Coast and South-Central Texas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's epigraph comes from composer Morton Feldman, \"silence is my substitute for counterpoint.\" A career-spanning Selected Poems, Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age, was published by Moloko Print in Germany in late 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Shute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798509522093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Bill Shute","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083459633407,"sku":"9798509522093","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neutral-bill-shute-9798509522093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}