{"product_id":"risk-rusty-morrison-9781939568762","title":"Risk","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the co-publisher of acclaimed poetry press Omnidawn, \u003ci\u003eRisk\u003c\/i\u003e engages directly with limitations, both those that structure the literal form of the poems and literary form and those that are both unavoidable and self-inflicted.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRisk\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Rusty Morrison uses a constraining form of seven-syllable segments with breaks between to explore questions of limitation. In these poems, she is not just writing about constraints, but living inside and seeing how to manage them. In this way, the speaker of these poems actively experiences limitations as event, not aftermath. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the idea of philosopher and critic H駘鈩e Cixous who writes that \"the border makes up the homeland, it prohibits and gives passage in the same stroke,\" in \u003ci\u003eRisk \u003c\/i\u003eMorrison aims where the border and framings she uses offer understanding and where boundaries should be pushed against and passed beyond, as frightening as that might be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rusty Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939568765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939568762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Ocean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Rusty Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482093871359,"sku":"9781939568762","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef865b25-302a-4150-8a68-ec7e09214ab6.jpg?v=1715988565","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/risk-rusty-morrison-9781939568762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}