{"product_id":"9781944682446","title":"Porous Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his latest collection, David Giannini works the \"porous borders\" between poetry and prose, tragedy and whimsy, gravity and absurdity, to offer up a grab bag of playful, thought-provoking pleasures that are \"something more than real\" but rather \"meta-real, hyper-real, surreal, irreal,\" as befits a world in which \"the real thing . . . is always at least partly a drafty, shifty, get-my-drift, daffy alembic grab-bag, wifty and makeshift.\" Not so these verbal gems, whose fancy and fantasy enriches their resonance in an alchemy akin to \"light tr[ying] to shed from a dark place to golden itself\" or those answers \"behind every door . . . eavesdrop[ping] on the deft noise of questions\" which we hadn't realized were troubling us, until encountering this unique and delightful book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e, editor ofPosit, author of\u003ci\u003eHeisenberg's Salon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these vertical prose poems, Porous (more Stevens's Crispin than Berryman's Henry) takes us through condensed narratives to grand myth and philosophy. Correspondence here leads to contradiction: \"each is a shutter of the other.\" And along the way devilish angels offer \"another place, also of poetry, a place of lyric dissociation, a locus\" on the page-these \"micro-monoliths\" swirl with macro-spin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis Barone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spuyten Duyvil Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039903400176,"sku":"9781944682446","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944682446_p0.jpg?v=1763792991","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944682446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}