{"product_id":"the-garden-of-earthly-delights-stephen-gibson-9781680030815","title":"The Garden of Earthly Delights: Book of Ghazals: A Scrambled Abecedarian Volume 17","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals\u003c\/i\u003e ranges across time and place in visiting personal as well as historical and even imagined experience. As an abecedarian was once used to teach the basics of a thing--say, to recognize an alphabet--Gibson, who has labelled his collection a \"scrambled abecedarian,\" suggests that all meaning arises out of disorder. However, it is from this disorder that the varied subjects of the poems, controlled by a single form comprising the collection, are shaped into a significance, whether that significance is to record a life at its start, or at its conclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDegas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Degas' The Absinthe Drinker, the woman in the bar \u003cbr\u003e looks so alone and depressed as she stares at her drink. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Earlier, she was imagining she would meet someone \u003cbr\u003e as she was getting dressed; now, she stares at her drink. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There are drunks all around. Everyone drinks absinthe. \u003cbr\u003e Lower-class women love it best. They stare at the drink \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (it's a poison, literally; they could care less), as they pour \u003cbr\u003e it over sugar to cut its bitterness. They stare and drink. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Degas said he viewed women as if through a bathroom keyhole: \u003cbr\u003e she gazes into her crystal ball's green mist--stares, drinks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680030817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680030815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d","brand":"Stephen Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519116620031,"sku":"9781680030815","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe992a4c-7a4e-46de-93e1-dd13d346b1ab.jpg?v=1778736868","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-stephen-gibson-9781680030815","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}