{"product_id":"the-invisible-world-is-in-bruce-whiteman-9781550227475","title":"The Invisible World Is in Decline","description":"Rooted in the Modernist tradition of writers like William Carlos Williams and indebted to Canadians like bpNichol, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible World Is In Decline\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophical, erotic, and highly personal prose poem. At the same time, it takes on the Postmodern challenges of engaging concerns that extend beyond the autobiographical. Whiteman investigates spiritual crisis, love, and the struggle through language to make sense of what it is to be human in a world where the human seems to be all that is available. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invisible World Is In Decline\u003c\/i\u003e pays homage to earlier writers of both the long poem and the impersonal love lyric: Coleridge, Lautréamont, Spicer, and Zukofsky. Responsive to the everyday, the particular, and to the body, Whiteman explores the grand ways in which poetry has come to shape language and experience in the last century. The prose poem form allows for images and music to sometimes predominate over shape and sense in what poet Robert Creeley once called \"a wild exultation.\" In the end, it moves towards a human paradise where love, thought, and language are in perfect attunement, and where poetry can say so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Whiteman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550227475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550227475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Misfit Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Bruce Whiteman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518903103743,"sku":"9781550227475","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39f1c76e-7ff3-414d-af3f-d7d10f1fedc6.jpg?v=1778736092","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-invisible-world-is-in-bruce-whiteman-9781550227475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}