{"product_id":"inter-arma-paperback","title":"Inter Arma - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren Shufran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis debut collection takes its title from a maxim of Cicero's that, translated loosely as \"In times of war the law falls silent,\" has been effective in recent discourse around the erosion of citizens' rights. Lauren Shufran employs a sprightly, activated boot-camp cadence in her metrically rigorous poems to look closely at the uncomfortable positions our military interventions put us in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiffing on military chants, propulsive rhythms whereby submission and domination are inculcated, these chatty, allusive, classically informed poems explore analogies of terrorism and homosexuality in the context of our militarized media, our mediated military. Internalized rhymes, lyric baubles, and glittery, hyphenated memes insist on trainings and missions wherein heroes and villains are sodomized and lionized, penetrated and perpetuated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Afterwards They Photographed my Veteran Face, f\/4 at 500: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe aperture where pussyfooting loses depth\u003cbr\u003e Of field like summary exposures. Doubt-\u003cbr\u003eFul of my fealty I'd procured a honey who\u003cbr\u003e Was made of honey-indicators: form\u003cbr\u003eIn cock and crockery. I souse his dish with glaze\u003cbr\u003e To make it lachrymose and vitreous, \u003cbr\u003eGet myriad shaft fractures in his forearms and\u003cbr\u003e His saucers, and high incidences of\u003cbr\u003eThrow-Downer's Sprain from over-wedging. I put the\u003cbr\u003e Clay up on the wheel; I make a hole there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Shufran \u003c\/b\u003ereceived an MA in English and MFA in poetry from San Francisco State University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she studies Renaissance lyric and religious enthusiasm in seventeenth-century England. This is her first full-length book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Shufran: Lauren Shufran received her MFA from San Francisco State University, and is active in Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's longest-running non-profit literary organization. Burrow was published in 2006; recent work has appeared in Try!, P-Queue, Yellow Edenwald Field, and War and Peace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700538576959,"sku":"9781934200681","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/98951d6f86015f2f06fe1ddbdd500e44.webp?v=1765017137","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/inter-arma-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}