{"product_id":"9780226235530","title":"Disorder","description":"\u003ci\u003eMidsummer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCambridge, MA, 2008\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Midsummer. Finally, you are used to disappointment.\u003cbr\u003e A baby touches phlox. Many failures, many botched attempts,\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A little success in unexpected forms. This is how the rest will go:\u003cbr\u003e The gravel raked, bricks ashen, bees fattened–honey not for babes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e All at once, a rustling, whole trees in shudder, clouds pulled\u003cbr\u003e Westward. You are neither here nor there, neither right nor\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Wrong. The world is indifferent, tired of your insistence.\u003cbr\u003e Garter snakes swallow frogs. The earthworms coil.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On your fingers, the residue of red pistils. What have you made?\u003cbr\u003e What have you kept alive? Green, a secret, occult,\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Grass veining the hands. Someone’s baby toddling.\u003cbr\u003e And the phlox white. For now. Midsummer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A remarkable first book, \u003ci\u003eDisorder\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story, by turns poignant and outrageous, of a family’s dislocation over four continents during the course of a hundred years. In short lyrics and longer narrative poems, Vanesha Pravin takes readers on a kaleidoscopic trek, from Bombay to Uganda, from England to Massachusetts and North Carolina, tracing the path of familial love, obsession, and the passage of time as filtered through the perceptions of family members and a host of supporting characters, including ubiquitous paparazzi, amorous vicars, and a dubious polygamist. We experience throughout a speaker forged by a deep awareness of intergenerational, multicontinental consciousness. At once global and personal, crossing ethnic, linguistic, and national boundaries in ways that few books of poetry do, \u003ci\u003eDisorder\u003c\/i\u003e bristles with quiet authority backed by a skeptical intelligence.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111272071408,"sku":"9780226235530","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226235530_p0.jpg?v=1763674093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226235530","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}