{"product_id":"shards-lorenzo-chiera-9780811224758","title":"Shards: Fragments of Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003eSensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chiera's elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere (\"City made of Roman ruins . . . \/ what a whorehouse \"), translated here by one of the most renowned poets of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his preface, Lawrence Ferlinghetti describes the experience of reading Chiera for the first time: \"We soon realize we are in the presence of a savage erotic consciousness, as if the lust-driven senses were suddenly awakened out of a hoary sleep of a thousand years, a youth shaken awake by a rude medieval hand, senses still reeling, drunk in the hold of some slave ship, not knowing night from day nor sight from sound, the eye and the ear and the nose confounding each other, not yet knowing which function each was to take up in the quivering dawn.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorenzo Chiera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811224759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811224758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.10h x 4.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Lorenzo Chiera","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640570401023,"sku":"9780811224758","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e51a13b5-13ae-458e-9bce-268d8929b85a.jpg?v=1740669981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shards-lorenzo-chiera-9780811224758","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}