{"product_id":"pariah-jay-sizemore-9781548080938","title":"Pariah: poems","description":"The fact that the author posed nude for this book cover should tell you about his commitment to its theme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetry is meant to be provocative. Poetry is meant to be triggering. Poetry, like any art, should disturb the comfortable, and comfort the disturbed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection, Sizemore refutes all notions of art being a safe space. He does not care if it is found problematic or triggering. He does not care if this work gets him put on blacklists and banished from the ivory tower. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the age of the cellphone. The age of the selfie. The age of reality TV presidents and fake news. Let your idols burn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSample poem: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat is known \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe trees know nothing of gods, \u003cbr\u003ethe trees are the gods\u003cbr\u003eexhaling life\u003cbr\u003ethey pleasure the sky\u003cbr\u003ewith effortless tongues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pigeons cooing in the loft\u003cbr\u003eknow nothing of martyrdom, \u003cbr\u003eflight is a language\u003cbr\u003edevoid of sacrifice, \u003cbr\u003ethe pigeons are the gods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA grasshopper's mandibles work\u003cbr\u003ewithout prayer's necessity, \u003cbr\u003eworshiping the scent of green, \u003cbr\u003ecolor their eyes never register, \u003cbr\u003ethe grasshopper is god. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe river is a vein without a heartbeat, \u003cbr\u003eit knows nothing of birth or death, \u003cbr\u003eit knows nothing but flow, \u003cbr\u003ean absence of all senses lending itself to replenishment.\u003cbr\u003eThe river is god. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sky knows nothing of stars, \u003cbr\u003enothing of clouds, birds or moon.\u003cbr\u003eThe sky knows nothing of rain, \u003cbr\u003eof breath, of blue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Earth knows nothing of war, \u003cbr\u003enothing of geese forming their migrational V.\u003cbr\u003eThe Earth knows nothing of man\u003cbr\u003escribbling their worships onto cave walls.\u003cbr\u003eDirty fingerprints left on a bone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe universe knows nothing of Earth, \u003cbr\u003enothing of Fibonacci, \u003cbr\u003enothing of the whale, \u003cbr\u003eas a woman knows nothing of the life\u003cbr\u003eshe bleeds onto the bedsheet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Sizemore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1548080934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781548080938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Jay Sizemore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459523621119,"sku":"9781548080938","price":12.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b3a894e-093c-41be-92a7-446f29d40072.jpg?v=1777410215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pariah-jay-sizemore-9781548080938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}