{"product_id":"bridge-of-the-world-by-roberto-harrison","title":"Harrison, Roberto: Bridge of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBridge of the World \u003c\/em\u003eby Roberto Harrison (Litmus Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poetry. Latinx Studies. BRIDGE OF THE WORLD maps multiple transits between mental, spiritual, and geographic topographies, pivoting on the experience of dislocation from Panama and Latinidad. This is a journey over bridges between inner and outer worlds, between the cosmic and the material, the past and the present, and the immediate and memory. Traversing is bound up in the alienations of migration, economic disparity, the violations of capitalism, and the cosmic betrayals in the struggle to hold onto love in the place of rage. Harrison's is a poetics that explores psychological fragmentation as the natural condition of a life lived suspended in multiple in-betweens. Place is colossal, mundane objects swell with symbolism, time and memory warp, and plague the mind and poetry with visions. These poems are glutted with the revelation and pain that braid themselves through the poet's living—a brave and undulating work that invites us into a love defiant and resolutely alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Roberto Harrison is a terrific poet. There is an underpinning of Mesoamerican shamanism to his work. Animals show up as spirit-doubles, plants dwell in their own conscious reality. William Blake's 'horses of instruction' roam the Plains as Harrison's 'horses of insight.' You never know if you are going to tip into vision or madness or some deeper state of mind. At the same time Harrison talks a modernist talk. He seems constantly in touch with Vallejo, Laura Riding, Antonin Artaud, or Garcia Lorca, the ancestral risk takers. BRIDGE OF THE WORLD includes a poetics statement, leading us through the strange trips and wild animal speech that give Harrison his poems. This puts his earlier books in perspective, particularly culebra. Spooky, tender, brave. The poems make me feel like a citizen of the archaic, the real world where all things are dancing, loud with significance.\"—Andrew Schelling\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337277128727,"sku":"9781933959337","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_b88b3042-8651-4f36-9d41-a5a98d2f7870.jpg?v=1586746052","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bridge-of-the-world-by-roberto-harrison","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}