{"product_id":"9780889713215","title":"How Festive the Ambulance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this debut poetry collection by award-winning author Kim Fu, incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sharp edge of humour slices through Fu's poetry, drawing attention to the distance between contemporary existence and the basic facts of life: \"In the classrooms of tomorrow, starved youth will be asked to imagine a culture that kept thin pamphlets of poetry pinned to a metal box full of food, who honoured their gods of plenty by describing ingredients in lush language.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating between incisive wit and dark beauty, Fu brings the rich symbolism of fairy tales to bear on our image-obsessed age. From \"The Unicorn Princess\": \"She applies gold spray paint to her horn each morning, \/ hoping to imitate the brass tusks \/ on the unicorns skewered to the carousel, \/ their brittle, painted smiles, harnesses \/ embedded in their backs and shellacked to high gloss.\" These poems are utterly of-the-moment, capturing the rage, irony and isolation of the era we live in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022870626544,"sku":"9780889713215","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889713215_p0.jpg?v=1772498335","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889713215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}