{"product_id":"9781771661140","title":"Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play","description":"In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' \"interior house-sculpture\" (\"Merz Structure No. 2\") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad 'unmaking,' so similar in nature to his own haunting experience, became the inspiration for \u003ci\u003eMerz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of experimental poetry that explores the dynamic, if often unsettling, relationship between making and unmaking, bliss and pain, utterance and silence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs diverse in form as they are in artistic\/cultural references, the poems of \u003ci\u003eMerz Structure No. 2\u003c\/i\u003e invoke an endless bounty of characters: the poet remembers Harold Ramis; Kafka summons the courage to tell his dad where to go; another tornado razes another small town; Yorick returns to run balls-out into the sea; Louise Bourgeois smashes a tea cup against one of her sculptures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders who connect with Phil Hall’s artistic investigations in \u003ci\u003eKilldeer\u003c\/i\u003e and Lisa Robertson's clear-eyed take on humanity in \u003ci\u003eMagenta Soul Whip\u003c\/i\u003e will enjoy Kennedy's feeling examination of loss in \u003ci\u003eMerz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131302756592,"sku":"9781771661140","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771661140_p0.jpg?v=1763708194","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771661140","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}