{"product_id":"blert-paperback","title":"Blert - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJordan Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bright, taut, explosive poems in Jordan Scott's \u003ci\u003eBlert\u003c\/i\u003e represent a spelunk into the mouth of the stutterer. Through the unique symptoms of the stutter (Scott, like fifty million others, has always stuttered), language becomes a rolling gait of words hidden within words, leading to different rhythms and textures, all addressed by the mouth's slight erosions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Scott's lexicon, to blert is to stutter, to disturb the breath of speaking. The stutter quivers in all that we do, from a skip on a CD to a slip of the tongue. These experiences are often dismissed as aberrant, but in \u003ci\u003eBlert\u003c\/i\u003e, such fragmented milliseconds are embraced and mined as language. Often aimed full-bore at words that are especially difficult for the stutterer, Scott's poems don't just discuss, they replicate the act of stuttering, the 'blort, jam, and rejoice' involved in grappling with the granular texture of words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, \u003cb\u003eJordan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Scott\u003c\/b\u003e now lives and hardly works in Toronto. Jordan's first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eSilt\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Sections of \u003ci\u003eBlert\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003efilling Station, drunken boat, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003enypoesi\u003c\/i\u003e. In the fall of 2006, Jordan worked on the final sections of \u003ci\u003eblert\u003c\/i\u003e while acting as the writer in residence at the International Writers' and Translators' Centre in Rhodes, Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 7.97 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701395492927,"sku":"9781552451991","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/507a75fa94aa2a65b34cb150b185d8e1.webp?v=1765020473","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/blert-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}