{"product_id":"transaction-histories-donna-stonecipher-9781609386023","title":"Transaction Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003eReveling in the paradox of the formal prose poem, Donna Stonecipher's \u003ci\u003eTransaction Histories \u003c\/i\u003egathers together six series of poems that explore the disobedient incongruities of aesthetics and emotions. Stonecipher's carefully sculpted forms and exacting language are held in tension with an unruly imagination to provoke a vision of experience densely layered with bodies impinging upon and altering each other, engaging in transactions that unfold in poetically complex and emotionally startling ways. By turns wry and melancholic, playful and acerbic, erotically charged and politically skeptical, Stonecipher's poems marry a deeply felt lyricism to a fascination with the mechanisms of narrative. The result is akin to Roland Barthes's notion of \"the novelistic\" writing that flirts with the gestures and spaces of the novel without the trappings of plot, character, or action. Narrative fragments dart in and out of sight, spectral figures and motifs recur in fugal patterns, and habits of ruthless observation are brought to bear on the details of both intimate life and social organization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStonecipher lays claim to a stylistic achievement and vision that are entirely her own, transparent and elusive, casual in address and rigorous in design. Whether training its eye on fetishized polar bears, illegal garbage dumping, or ideological debates around rose chintz wallpaper, \u003ci\u003eTransaction Histories \u003c\/i\u003etracks the fitful and tragicomic relationships that exist among objects, landscapes, texts, and people, and lays bare the ways in which our transactions keep our lives going. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna Stonecipher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609386027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609386023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2018","brand":"Donna Stonecipher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984583852287,"sku":"9781609386023","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06ec9dfd-9f6d-4a89-83cc-9c7c10d49f68.jpg?v=1683273096","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transaction-histories-donna-stonecipher-9781609386023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}