{"product_id":"bird-arsonist","title":"Bird Arsonist","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthors: Gary Barwin \u0026amp; Tom Prime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: New Star Books (2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten with four hands, by Tom Prime and the Giller Prize and Governor General's Award shortlisted Gary Barwin, \u003cem\u003eBird Arsonist\u003c\/em\u003e is avant-garde, tragicomic poetry at its most arresting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey say the language of birds is the closest to that of the divine. They also say poetry is the unacknowledged legislator of the world. In\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBird Arsonist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Tom Prime and Gary Barwin — like all good avant-gardists — flip these commonplaces on their heads, showing that poetry sets alight any transparent, easy, lawful language, or is precisely what language spits out as it turns to ash.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompressed to the point of implosion, the poems that make up this volume are contorted descendants of Dadaism, Surrealism, and every other -ism. Prime and Barwin confront poetry's contemporary preference for confession and today's digitization of reality not only by — as they are two — using a doubled “I,” but also by letting language elide the human-all-too-human hand of authorship tout court. The author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBird Arsonist \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis language itself, sonorous and fragmentary. Prime and Barwin have merely done the job of giving it the room to speak, of keeping it infected, of making visible the outline of its splinters and its cuts. Shake gently!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Star","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44041300443235,"sku":"9781554201853","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/9781554201853.jpg?v=1772831321","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/bird-arsonist","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}