{"product_id":"9781771661157","title":"their biography: an organism of relationships","description":"Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be \"about\" its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero... but by many?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was the challenge taken up by Kevin McPherson Eckhoff in his fourth book, \u003ci\u003etheir biography: an organism of relationships.\u003c\/i\u003e This collaborative memoir collages together word-portraits from friends, family, coworkers, strangers, robots, and even adversaries in order to create a silhouette of not a single person, but of the manacles that connect people to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etheir biography is meant to make people think—it's broad array of voices and poetic\/prosaic forms disturbs comfortable patterns of reading, and its subject is as much about the contributors as the author. Eclectic and desolate, confessional and dubious, this record of relationships defies authorship, biography, and individualism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFans of Gregory Betts's \"Facebook Poem Project\" or Rachel Zolf's \u003ci\u003eTolerance Project\u003c\/i\u003e, along with anyone compelled by contemporary poetry and conceptual art, will connect with this pixelated investigation into identity, and the true meaning of 'self' as we and others define it.","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131270545648,"sku":"9781771661157","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771661157_p0.jpg?v=1763709155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771661157","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}