{"product_id":"javier-paola-true-accou","title":"Javier, Paola: True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoof Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 9, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The former Queens Borough Poet Laureate, Paolo Javier was the recipient of a 2021 Rauschenberg Foundation Artist Grant, featured artist in Greater NY 2015 and Queens International 2018: Volumes. He has produced three albums of sound poetry with Listening Center (David Mason), and is the author of five previous full-length books.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\r\r\u003cp\u003eTRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE 7 IN SUNNYSIDE is a book of experiments with the para literary and hybrid text, inhabiting the space\/s of the poem \u0026amp;\/in cinema, collaboration, comics, curation, public parks, social media, sound art, and occasional walks in the neighborhood. Spanning cinema, drawing, collage, and sound, Javier's poems engage a wide range of subjects and entities, including art fairs, a new public park on the West Side Highway, the deaths of pop music icons, gentrification, world revolutions, and the work\/worlds of Joseph Cornell and Robert Seydel. \u003ci\u003e True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside\u003c\/i\u003e is also an homage to Queens, the borough that continues to inspire and make possible Javier's restless poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\r\r\r\u003cp\u003e\"Paolo Javier's poems are magic carpets of extravagant textures (visual and verbal). Javier combines an engagement with the social politics of the local with a commitment to aesthetic freedom that exultantly borders on abandon (a band's dome): a 'communard pulveriz[ing] rapaciousness.' Onwards!\" \r\r—Charles Bernstein\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40382668668951,"sku":"9781737970385","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9781737970385.jpg?v=1668033078","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/javier-paola-true-accou","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}