{"product_id":"the-squatters-gift-robert-rybicki-9781628973730","title":"The Squatters' Gift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Squatters' Gift\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. Like Miron Bialoszewski, Paul Celan and Tristan Tzara before him, Rybicki excavates syllable and song, mind and muck, to invent a transnational poetry pointedly unapologetic and utterly unique. Karol Maliszewski observes that Rybicki has taken over from the Surrealists and the Dadaists: \"the hero of these poems is language -- escaping from a man and suddenly returning in flashes and dazzles.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe opening lines of \u003ci\u003eThe Squatters' Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, is reminiscent of a sort of vagabond Jack Gladney from Don DeLillo's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, wandering the supermarket aisles in a consumerist haze: \"The supermarket \/ melts \/ like a chocolate bar: \/ a dendrite stack.\" But the comparison is short-lived and far too simplistic. It is only tenable if the comforts of ritualized shopping are multi-lingual and multi-dimensional, Greek mythology intersecting with 1980s Polish punk music, poetic string theory and time travel and psychedelic dumpster diving all rolled into one. It is this wanderlust and these sorts of imaginative leaps that animate much of \u003ci\u003eThe Squatters' Gift\u003c\/i\u003e and make it so incredible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Rybicki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628973730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628973730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Robert Rybicki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990858793215,"sku":"9781628973730","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20d46a02-7e1c-44e4-a835-dfb360694302.jpg?v=1683307095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-squatters-gift-robert-rybicki-9781628973730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}