{"product_id":"9781480459137","title":"Girls on the Run","description":"\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery’s wild, deliriously inventive book-length poem, inspired by the adventures of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a “realm of the unreal” where a plucky band of young girls, the Vivians, helps lead an epic rebellion against dark forces of chaos. Darger’s work is now renowned for its brilliant appropriation of cultural ephemera, its dense and otherworldly prose, and its utterly unique high-low juxtaposition of popular culture and the divine—some of the very same traits that decades of critics and readers have responded to in John Ashbery’s many groundbreaking works of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGirls on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashbery’s unmatched poetic inventiveness travels to new territory, inspired by the characters and cataclysms of Darger’s imagined universe. \u003ci\u003eGirls on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e is a disquieting, gorgeous, and often hilarious mash-up that finds two radical American artists engaged in an unlikely conversation, a dialogue of reinvention and strange beauty. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173294129392,"sku":"9781480459137","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480459137_p0.jpg?v=1763619603","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480459137","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}