{"product_id":"pleasure-angelo-nikolopoulos-9781954245082","title":"Pleasure","description":"\u003cp\u003ePLEASURE is a book-length poem which muses on the phenomenology of solitude in a pastoral landscape, written in a diaristic, lyric mode, where the queer \"I\" alternately savors the decadence of isolation and stands at the precipice of despair. A travelogue in verse, PLEASURE takes place in Syros, the Greek island to which author Angelo Nikolopolous travels a few weeks after the discovery of his mother's brain tumor. These intertextual, elliptical explorations of solitude and sensuality interweave images of seaside roaming, secluded town life, and ephemeral sexual encounters with the ubiquitous implication of death--the waning summer, the ill, perhaps dying, mother. Staring down true disconnection--both physical and psychic orphanhood --Nikolopoulos writes about the thrill and sadness of turning your back against the world and those in it only to rediscover that which tethers all to human experience: the quotidian, singular pleasures of having a body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angelo Nikolopoulos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954245084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954245082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/21\/2022","brand":"Angelo Nikolopoulos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053637234943,"sku":"9781954245082","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61030535-acdf-4314-b706-6d282360d312.jpg?v=1685025407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pleasure-angelo-nikolopoulos-9781954245082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}