{"product_id":"9781468514377","title":"Explode: Epic Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003ePostmodern fiction is the quintessential question -- elusive as the answer for the meaning of life or the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Century response to Langston Hughes’ rhetorical question, “\u003ci\u003eWhat happens to a dream deferred… does it fester and sore…or explode\u003c\/i\u003e?”  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe found art in \u003ci\u003eExplode\u003c\/i\u003e are poesy movements:  Dada, (“\u003ci\u003eContrapposto poets succumbing to peaches… Dogs suspended like meat in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeoul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.”)\u003c\/i\u003e The imagery is an installation of words in broad brushstrokes, (“\u003ci\u003eWhite horses straddled the hull, and Ishmir smiled at me, when a glass of tea, shifted on his tray.”)  S\u003c\/i\u003eounds like Jazz, (“\u003ci\u003eSee Sisyphus scorn at amber headlights in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e dew… skin seeking skin and birds seeking the flutter-of-feathers.”) \u003c\/i\u003e Looks like Impressionism, (“\u003ci\u003eThis day of rest I worship \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e and the celestial trip I straddle…To be able to dry my canvassed toes with the heat of Golden Pecan… And the fervent chill of observation.”)  \u003c\/i\u003eExpressionism, (“\u003ci\u003eOn the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Line… I saw dog paws tattooed on her thigh and red daisies on her boots… My prism came from within and landed on my skin.”)\u003c\/i\u003e  Realism,  (“\u003ci\u003eChronos’ eating children again, consuming, regurgitating, the piss Ellison smelled in the hallway, the blood he saw at the top of the stairs,”)\u003c\/i\u003e and Surrealism,  (“\u003ci\u003eIn random chimera conceits I think… of blue nights and black mornings… the full moon in the white Winter sky, with pink Cirrus lips, demons and febrile mouths, Rimbaud, and blackbirds in epic simile, Squirrels that wait for green lights.”\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExplode\u003c\/i\u003e is art responding to poetry and poetry responding to art in esoteric beginnings and sublime endings.  Imagine, Octavio Paz’s elucidation of modern art, “... a frankly truthful work, opening out like a fan.” \u003ci\u003eExplode\u003c\/i\u003e is practical beauty – necessary Word.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182914748656,"sku":"9781468514377","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468514377_p0.jpg?v=1763695782","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468514377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}