{"product_id":"9781554902668","title":"Apostrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003eyou are entirely happy with your poem \/ you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned \/ you are totally satisfied with the outcome \/ you are a man \/ you are a little confused \/ you are entirely happy with your poem \/ you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned \/ you are totally satisfied with the outcome . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Apostrophe” is:\u003cbr\u003ea) a figure of speech in which a person, an abstract quality or a nonexistent entity is addressed as though present\u003cbr\u003eb) a poem written in 1993 in which every sentence is an apostrophe\u003cbr\u003ec) a program—apostropheengine.ca—based on the 1993 poem that hijacks search engines in order to extend the poem infinitely\u003cbr\u003ed) a book of poetry written using the website\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer:\u003cbr\u003ee) all of the above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry’s \u003cem\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/em\u003e contains all of these things, except the search engine (but you can visit that any time you like). Each line from the original poem has become the title of a new poem generated by the program’s metonymic romp through the World Wide Web. Phrases rub against each other promiscuously; poems and readers alike come to their own conclusions. The results are by turns poignant, banal, offensive and hilarious, but always surprising and always unaffected. In other words, everything a book of contemporary poetry should be, and then some.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and scholar Charles Bernstein has suggested that \u003cem\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/em\u003e may be related to Freud’s notion of the uncanny, a somnambulistic drift that appears aimless yet somehow always returns to “you.” \u003cem\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/em\u003e is an entirely new kind of poetry: neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132686745840,"sku":"9781554902668","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554902668_p0.jpg?v=1763755157","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554902668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}