{"product_id":"9781933527604","title":"Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background","description":"\u003cp\u003eFast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's \u003ci\u003eBlue Stranger With Mosaic Background\u003c\/i\u003e take his signature themes—stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation—and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of \"bits\" that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050274570480,"sku":"9781933527604","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933527604_p0.jpg?v=1763640493","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933527604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}