{"product_id":"9781935835080","title":"Algorithms","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. John Allman's prose poems in ALGORITHMS go forth in a kind of wanderjahr to discover or be discovered. These prose poems possess a different kind of urgency, a vitality that almost defies boundaries, a freedom to span discourses and leap across vocabularies. Allman is free to follow his mindful wanderings, landing us in Croatia in 1991, navigating with Columbus in 1492, witnessing a drug bust, watching his wife's root canal, and examining the frozen remains of princess in Siberia. At the same time, the notion of an algorithm, the idea that, given a certain origin, a thing in process must become x or y, provides a way of understanding that each poem encompasses a fate, destined to become only itself—in essence, that boundaries are inherent in being. Ultimately, this points to Allman's unresolved conundrum: the desire to be something beyond one's self, but one can never escape one's own being, and its limits—for what then would I and Not-I be?","brand":"Quale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039688409328,"sku":"9781935835080","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935835080_p0.jpg?v=1763657745","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935835080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}