{"product_id":"09-29-20-rain-in-plural-by-fiona-sze-lorrain","title":"Sze-Lorrain, Fiona: Rain in Plural","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinceton University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 29, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci\u003eRain in Plural\u003c\/i\u003e is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003eas \"a master of musicality and enlightening allusions.\" In the wholly original world of these new poems, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e, using silence and montage, lyric and antilyric, to envision what she calls \"creating between liberties.\" With a moral precision embracing \u003ci\u003eus\u003c\/i\u003e without eschewing \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e, she rethinks questions of citizenship, the selections of sensory memory, and, by extension, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes, \"I accept the truth in newspapers \/ by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. \/\/ To each weather forecast I give thanks: \/ \u003ci\u003emerci\u003c\/i\u003e for every outdated \/\/ dusk\/dawn.\" Agrippina the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bob Dylan, a butoh performance, an unnamed Raku tea bowl-each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness, synchrony, coincidences, and accidents, \u003ci\u003eRain in Plural\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31754834346007,"sku":"9780691203560","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/fsl.gif?v=1599768643","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/09-29-20-rain-in-plural-by-fiona-sze-lorrain","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}