{"product_id":"9780889713093","title":"Transmitter and Receiver","description":"Debut talent Raoul Fernandes's first offering is \u003cem\u003eTransmitter and Receiver\u003c\/em\u003e, a masterful and carefully depicted exploration of one's relationships with oneself, friends, memories, strangers and technology.\u003cp\u003eThe three parts of this collection are variations building on a theme--at times lonely, sometimes adoring, but always honest. Wider areas of contemplation--the difficulty of communication, the ever-changing symbolism of language and the nature of human interaction in the age of machines--are explored through colloquial scenes of the everyday: someone eats a burger in a car parked by the river (\"Grand Theft Auto: Dead Pixels\"), a song plays on the radio as a man contemplates suicide (\"Car Game\"), and a janitor works silently once everyone else has gone (\"After Hours at the Centre For Dialogue\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForthright and effortlessly lyrical, Fernandes builds each poem out of candor and insight, an addictive mix that reads like a favourite story and glitters with concealed meaning. Rather than drawing lines between isolation and connection, past and present, metaphor and reality, \u003cem\u003eTransmitter and Receiver\u003c\/em\u003e offers loneliness and longing hand-in-hand with affection and understanding: \"The last assembly instruction is always you reading this. A machine \/ that rarely functions, but could never without you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022801125616,"sku":"9780889713093","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889713093_p0.jpg?v=1772498424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889713093","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}