{"product_id":"9780571321445","title":"Kim Kardashian's Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 72 poems in \u003ci\u003eKim Kardashian's Marriage \u003c\/i\u003emark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted for 72 days, and was seen by some as illustrative of celebrity life as a performance, as spectacle. Whatever the truth of this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Sam Riviere has used the furor as a point of ignition, deploying terms from Kardashian's make-up regimen to explore surfaces and self-consciousness, presentation and obfuscation. His pursuit is toward a form of zero-privacy akin, perhaps, to Kardashian's own life, that eschews a dependence upon confessional modes of writing to explore what kind of meaning lies in impersonal methods of creation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems have been produced by harvesting and manipulating the results of search engines to create a poetry of part-collage, part-improvisation. The effect is as refractive as it is reflective, and disturbs the slant on biography through a bricolage of recycled and cross-referenced language, until we are left with a pixellation of the first person.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165997613296,"sku":"9780571321445","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571321445_p0.jpg?v=1763719274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571321445","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}