{"product_id":"scries","title":"Scries","description":"\u003cp\u003eApproaching reading and writing as forms of divination, Scries navigates the dark territory of oracular poetics, bringing second sight to a strange range of interlocutors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-the extrasurrealist poetry of Joyce Mansour's Cris, a hungry ghost, the plant damiana, Tarovsky's Turin Horse, and Pandora. The last poem channels Margery Kempe, and Alice in Wonderland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Workman's previous collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Absolutely feminine, disobedient, radiant, scathing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sarah Fox, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How to begin without comparing this book to the books that keep getting called 'home.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Carrie Lorig, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"END is an achievement in play. It is true joy. It is perfect gemini anxiety\/flexibility and human strength, sitting with and passing through difficult fury and ugly love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Feng Sun Chen, on ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a most ungrim grimoire. This is where to sit at a disaster.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sharon Mesmer, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surprisingly universal and welcoming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jennifer L. Knox, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Workman's artistic antennas are tuned to the civic mindfuck that characterizes our age. While we're both paralyzed and tantalized by the entanglement of fantasy and reality scripting our daily life, Workman's poetry seems at once to reflect the ethos of this world, while simultaneously rejecting it by making it entirely her own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—John Ebersole, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One can hear Breton's cry at the end of Nadja, 'Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.' Workman's work argues definitively for the imagination, for frolic, for the 'make' in 'make sense.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James Wagner, on ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beauty School Editions LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67660749996349,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798989096244ita.jpg?v=1791580482","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/scries","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}