{"product_id":"the-nothing-that-is-johanna-skibsrud-9781771665261","title":"The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being Volume 9","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRather than making \"something\" out of \"nothing,\" what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both yet to be imagined.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Nothing That Is\u003c\/i\u003e, Johanna Skibsrud gathers essays about the very concept of \"nothing.\" Addressing a broad range of topics--including false atrocity tales, so-called fake news, high-wire acts, and telepathy, as well as responses to works by John Ashbery, Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, and more--these essays seek to decentre our relationship to both the \"givenness\" of history and to a predictive or probable model of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nothing That Is\u003c\/i\u003e explores ways in which poetic language can activate the possibilities replete within our every moment. Skibsrud reveals that within every encounter between a speaking \"I\" and what exceeds subjectivity, there is a listening \"Other,\" be it community or the objective world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johanna Skibsrud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771665262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771665261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Johanna Skibsrud","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082916045055,"sku":"9781771665261","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nothing-that-is-johanna-skibsrud-9781771665261","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}