{"product_id":"border-towns-paperback","title":"Border Towns - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. S. Giscombe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe several essays that comprise \u003ci\u003eBorder Towns\u003c\/i\u003e chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays' topics--color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, public transit, etc., --make an unlikely field. But through all its pages the book traces and describes acts of situation; and--for all its werewolves, green-grocers, and paeans to miscegenation and migration--its interest is not in capturing but in \"the shape of reference itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title figure of the border town serves as a \"beard\" for the unassimilable. The author, whose other Dalkey books are poetry books, writes, \"The mistake or the short-sightedness is to perceive border towns as finite or one-to-one compositions, or as places where monoliths stretch and mingle; or stare at one another.....Perhaps at best is border town--the term--the gesture toward something that's actually untenable or untenably awkward.\" So \u003ci\u003eBorder Towns\u003c\/i\u003e--the book of essays--is perhaps, finally, a book about poetry. (\"It often seems to me,\" writes the author, \"that one of the best uses to which prose can be put is describing poetry.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 217\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701303251007,"sku":"9781564787651","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fc937af844a4f5a536e13e568afa6337.webp?v=1765020125","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/border-towns-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}