{"product_id":"9781556593758","title":"pH Neutral History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dimkovska pins readers to the wall with rapid-fire linguistic energy.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Dimkovsaka has the] stunning capacity to transform the ridiculous into something poignant and utterly precise.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the intersection of boundaries, Macedonian poet and novelist Lidija Dimkovska scrutinizes life's customary and trivial details to expose the consequences—both confusing and edifying—of living in an age of contradictory ethics. These poems are packed with unusual connections and surprising detail, and populated with family characters as well as Bruno Schultz, Laurie Anderson, and George Steiner. Bilingual presentation, with Macedonian \u003ci\u003een face\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Ideal Weight\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur river can be seen only through a small basement window.\u003cbr\u003eAnd nobody dies absolutely any more. The middle-class scrapes the price tags off presents, decorates windows with laser stars, plays shadow theatre with rubber gloves on. It makes faces at you as you cry:\u003cbr\u003e\"I exorcise zombies professionally! Be free again!\"\u003cbr\u003eand I know if you're too fat or too thin life and death are one and the same burden.\u003cbr\u003eOnly someone of ideal weight can carry the cross upright . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and novelist \u003cb\u003eLidija Dimkovska\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1971 in Macedonia and she earned a doctoral degree in Romanian literature in Bucharest. She has published six books of poetry and one novel; her work has been translated into twenty languages. Dimkovska lives and teaches in Ljubljana, Slovenia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055969714416,"sku":"9781556593758","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593758_p0.jpg?v=1763756591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593758","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}