{"product_id":"whywhy-not-8-martha-ronk-9780520238114","title":"Why\/Why Not: Volume 8","description":"\u003ci\u003eWhy\/Why Not\u003c\/i\u003e presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy\/Why Not\u003c\/i\u003e moves across a vivid terrain-the stage of \u003ci\u003eHamlet, \u003c\/i\u003e Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens-to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Ronk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520238117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520238114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.62w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2003 pg. 71","brand":"Martha Ronk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056211357951,"sku":"9780520238114","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_361b9981-d867-405c-b684-f93323c819bb.jpg?v=1685040111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whywhy-not-8-martha-ronk-9780520238114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}