{"product_id":"the-channel-jana-prikryl-9781324130383","title":"The Channel: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her fluid and inexorable fourth book, Jana Prikryl summons Cordelia's voice, harnessing the power of \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e to think back through her family story and see more clearly our contemporary mad kings. Weaving short lyrics through experiments with the dramatic monologue, Prikryl runs tests on her own medium, the English language, the third language she learned as a child after her family fled Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Channel\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of clashing styles and perspectives, feelings and nationalities, where no voice remains stable for long. The centuries and settings molt from the Bronze Age to Jacobean England to the Cold War to the digital now, as the poetic voice pushes itself into evasive maneuvers, anachronistic digressions, bad jokes, worse puns, desperate expressions of love, and the speaker struggles to escape the roles written for her. These are poems that ask what new language, what reality might live beyond the borders of that role?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jana Prikryl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324130385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324130383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jana Prikryl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520217002239,"sku":"9781324130383","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bb4d0be-9504-4401-8b24-79ae25800ca7.jpg?v=1778741435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-channel-jana-prikryl-9781324130383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}