{"product_id":"9781848611702","title":"Root","description":"This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of it'. In a series of unsettling prose poems Black offers pieces of a fractured past. The effect is memorable and often menacing, each poem glinting like a sliver from a broken mirror; language enacting the struggle to retrieve and reassemble an unauthorised past. The difficulties of truth finding and telling are explored through shifts in identity and a syntax of qualifications and hesitations where everyday phrases take on a new and frightening resonance. Domestic objects and rituals loom large in the distorted reflections of the poems, conveying a sense of wonderland gone wrong.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054557282544,"sku":"9781848611702","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848611702_p0.jpg?v=1763751483","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848611702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}