{"product_id":"toska-alina-pleskova-9781646052721","title":"Toska","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToska\u003c\/i\u003e derives its title from the Russian word which denotes a melancholic longing without a singular cause, longing for a better world than the late-stage capitalist hell we live in.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToska\u003c\/i\u003e explores a sense of rootlessness and a sort of anti-nationalism; how the pervasive sense of being an immigrant or \"in but not of\" a place never quite dissipates, particularly amid the dissonance and alienation felt within U.S. culture gunning towards a vision of imperialist capitalist white-supremacist hegemony. These poems come to the weary conclusion, time and time again, that sexual liberalism\/liberation and hedonism are only one sort of revelation - that this sort of openness and exploration isn't enough to save anyone from despair or the existentially weary feeling of toska from which the title takes its name. But desire is not just Eros -- the poems carry a strong desire for a different world, for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alina Pleskova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646052722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.83w x 0.32d","brand":"Alina Pleskova","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302518452479,"sku":"9781646052721","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0dd5443-c9cd-4043-a79d-f304cb20c085.jpg?v=1695162088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toska-alina-pleskova-9781646052721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}