{"product_id":"2940153677187","title":"Femme au chapeau","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Rachel Dacus´s poetry collection, Femme au chapeau, the textured worlds of her sounds and incredibly dense images create a new poetry that is–like Wallace Stevens´–constructed of the private symbol and metaphor. Once conquered, this is a realm of dazzling strangeness and beauty. In the offbeat and almost surrealistic way Dacus manages to thrill us with her poems. Femme au chapeau, whose title is taken from a portrait that Matisse painted of his wife–a painting that presaged French Fauvism–is really more like a Frida Kahlo painting: gorgeously off-putting in its metaphoric twists, mesmerizingly complex, startling and horrific in its images, and yet so unique that it lives on its own terms after a while and demands that the reader accept them. Dacus´s subjects are far-ranging, from the metaphoric spins she puts on an art-obsessed father who slides into brutality (one poem, \"Ocean House,\" evokes him–or at least his mouth–as the ocean itself) to a simply rendered yet no less complex poem on the narrator´s mother making apple pie. One reviewer called it \"thrilling, one-of-a-kind poetry\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Dacus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149853016304,"sku":"2940153677187","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153677187_p0.jpg?v=1764054091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153677187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}