{"product_id":"optic-nerve-matthew-hollett-9781771315999","title":"Optic Nerve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlist 2024 JM Abraham Poetry Award* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world. Through playful poems about photography and visual perception, Hollett dissects auroras and quarks, atmospheric phenomena, potatoes, bomb craters and peat bog cadavers. This darkly comic collection is shadowed by entoptic paparazzi, haunted by peripheral visions. Born of attentive walking and looking, of footsteps and snapshots, it bears witness to art history and alluvial light, portable keyholes, the pandemic, climate change, and the sheer strangeness of seeing everyday things with ecstatic eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Hollett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771315997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771315999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.67w x 0.39d","brand":"Matthew Hollett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080154312959,"sku":"9781771315999","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_366178d5-d726-4b1b-a96a-1bde0b87fc49.jpg?v=1685485249","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/optic-nerve-matthew-hollett-9781771315999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}