{"product_id":"9781629220321","title":"The Veronica Maneuver","description":"Jennifer Moore's debut collection takes its title from a bullfighting technique in which the matador draws the bull with his cape; in these poems, however, traditional moves are reconfigured and roles are subverted. In a broader sense, the word \"veronica\" (from the Latin vera, or \"true\" and the Greek eikon, or \"image\") functions as a frame for exploring the nature of visual experience, and underscores a central question: how do we articulate events or emotions that evade clear understanding? In order to do so, the figures here perform all manner of transformations: from vaudeville star to cartoonist's daughter, from patron saint to \"Blue-Eyed Torera;\" they are soothsayers, apothecaries, curators, often conjuring selves out of thin air. This dilating and \"shape-shifting\" of perspective becomes a function of identity: \"the absorber and the absorbed become one.\" Indeed, both speaker and listener must be crafted-willed into being-by each other (\"Be your own maestro\"), and are apparitions until then. Through a flick of the wrist or a trick of the eye, these speakers understand that construction of a self comes only through performance of that self—which performances are often punctuated with a wink, an unswerving gaze, or both at once.","brand":"University of Akron Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180937068784,"sku":"9781629220321","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781629220321_p0.jpg?v=1763872633","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781629220321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}