{"product_id":"9781556594472","title":"fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Translation. FUNGUS SKULL EYE WING is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh- like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the \"rational,\" perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award- winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition.\u003cp\u003e\"Alfonso D'Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacán, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Ángel, fascinated then as now by the non- human.\"—Forrest Gander\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050365665520,"sku":"9781556594472","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594472_p0.jpg?v=1763755312","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}