{"product_id":"piracy-mich-elan-9798291825631","title":"Piracy: Poems of Resistance Under False Names","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Finally, a poetry book that hates me as much as I hate myself.\"\u003c\/b\u003e (Luna Klein, former assistant editor, now goat herder)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's Pessoa meets Derrida meets the guy screaming on the tram at 7am. You're not sure who's right, but he does make some points.\"\u003c\/b\u003e (Attilio Krug, Chief Officer of EU Interpretive Damage Control Bureau)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was a time when censorship banned books\u003cbr\u003eNow it rewards the conformist ones, and shadow-bans the true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePIRACY is a jailbreak in verse. A covert literary strike. Each poem belongs to an imaginary author, à la Pessoa. Not to hide, but to expose. Because today truth without disguise is a liability. Too many risks for any single voice to carry: it needs to be fractured into many.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve imaginary authors. Twelve extraordinary lives. Dozens of unfiltered, politically untethered poems. No disclaimers. No institutional backing. No safe voices. They speak from the cracks, beyond etiquette and conformism. They don't want to be safe. They're just unwilling to lie. That's why these poems wear masks. That's why they need heteronyms. There must be distance from truth: seen too close it burns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePIRACY builds a fictitious chorus to reclaim what literature has traded away: charisma, risk, seduction, dissent. And yes, violence, and rage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou won't agree with every poem.\u003cbr\u003eThat's good.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead it like a leak.\u003cbr\u003eRead it like a ghost network.\u003cbr\u003eRead it before it disappears.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mich Elan,Olivia Stark,Fernando Arevalo Sternmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798291825631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\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 0.27d","brand":"Mich Elan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49169726931199,"sku":"9798291825631","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/piracy-mich-elan-9798291825631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}