{"product_id":"fang-shangyang-bastard-ofpb","title":"[05\/11\/27] Fang, Shangyang: Bastard of Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 11, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Shangyang Fang's trademark lyric emerges his second collection, \u003cem\u003eBastard of Elsewhere, \u003c\/em\u003ewhere the self becomes fluid--at once conductor and musician, audience and instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I can barely tell \/ imagination from reality.\" So opens Shangyang Fang's \u003cem\u003eBastard of Elsewhere\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection where life is measured in apricots, a city's waist can be played like a violin, and dreams are as tangible a meeting place as memory. Exploring the extremes of violence and intimacy, acceptance and estrangement, the self becomes a buoyant object, while recurring \"biographies\" steady the self in moments of palpable vulnerability. \"I am \/ made a foreigner \/ to find the passage home,\" admits the speaker, as they translate themself to earn acceptance--from the stranger on the park bench, from the ghost of a father. Shepherded by Fang's trademark lyric, we emerge from these poems utterly human, having felt the sting of an estranging world and unlocked a sense of belonging found only within.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45720656347159,"sku":"9781556597411","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Draw_book_bf02f74d-4405-4746-83c8-52dae244f075.png?v=1791498658","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/fang-shangyang-bastard-ofpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}