{"product_id":"9781890650834","title":"The Middle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Middle is beautiful and powerful—Angela Hume’s line breaks are beautiful and powerful—her pages are beautiful and powerful—and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness (“private like a thought \/ for a wrist, of a thigh”), keener sounds (“try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try”)—keener ethics, too (first \/ demarcate \/\/ an aesthetics of \/ \/ injury”)—the body is ghost—polis is eyes but police is eyes too—and polis is police (“state of pacifi \/ cation state of \/\/ damage state of \/ destroy-all-ex \/\/ cess body state of little \/ to no \/\/ speech \/ ill \/ state \/\/ police \/ state”)—we have to have political poetry—we can’t be human otherwise—and what holds here is a new Objectivism—a clarity made actual in a construct of words (“(inhabit that \/ incision \/\/ in such a way that can’t be used”)—this clarity holds against and in the violence that surrounds us (Benjamin: “something rotten in law is revealed”)—Angela Hume is a necessary poet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062674047216,"sku":"9781890650834","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781890650834_p0.jpg?v=1769896254","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781890650834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}