{"product_id":"impastoral-paperback","title":"Impastoral - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrandan Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that blur the boundaries of language and species, inviting us to imagine a new world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The expansive reworking of language in \u003ci\u003eImpastoral\u003c\/i\u003e flies through the possible voices of outsides and insides--slug, probe, horse carriage, sewer, potted plant, lab rat, vampire, bot fly, giant cow. Language, in Brandan Griffin's poetry, is neither human nor nonhuman, and it undoes that very idea of these distinctions, so beings--slugprobe, pottedhorsesewer, telepathybarcode, mammaltexts--morph and change in between boundaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each of these poems is an organism, a collection of living connections, looped interiorities strung together in worlds tunneling through worlds. The poems' composition becomes a decomposition of budding, breeding, and fluctuating. Reading this collection is an experience of becoming deformed and merged into the experiences of other beings; you are sea vent, microprocessor, cell gel, bug, a greenly translucent leaf typed half a sound at a time. Griffin invites us to imagine all possible beings and to hatch into a fresh world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpastoral\u003c\/i\u003e won the Omnidawn Open Book contest, selected by Brian Teare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrandan Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Massachusetts and now lives in Sunnyside, New York. He is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eFour Concretures\u003c\/i\u003e, and his poems have been published in \u003ci\u003eTagvverk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWord for\/Word\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eImpastoral\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698200940607,"sku":"9781632431028","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a9ba208cae828579f8f64ea2fb039f6f.webp?v=1765010108","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/impastoral-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}