{"product_id":"9781550654608","title":"Stranger","description":"In \u003ci\u003eStranger\u003c\/i\u003e, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity markers. In place of this contested sense of self, \u003ci\u003eStranger\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with a range of possible states of unknowing. Have we over-determined our identities, and thus diminished our appetites? “I fell asleep between two cold rivers,” Matuk reports, “while the blue shadows of uncomplicated \/ conifers leaned into their own.” Bold and spontaneous, piling images and ideas on top of each other to create opulent sound patterns, these poems reawaken the reader’s sense of wonder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  An urbane, surrealist-influenced, lexically ingenious whip-smartness shot through with a beating-heart desire.\" Stewart Cole, \u003ci\u003eThe Urge\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Collisions of language and metaphor are so daring, the jumps between image and image so precipitous.\" Lorraine York, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \"Matuk has a deep command of language and is unafraid to draw from all its resources to represent the tangible happenstances of our object heart.\" Catherine Owen, \u003ci\u003eMarrow Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Véhicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175630520560,"sku":"9781550654608","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550654608_p0.jpg?v=1763752487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550654608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}