{"product_id":"serenade-by-brooke-ellsworth","title":"Ellsworth, Brooke: Serenade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSerenade \u003c\/em\u003eby Brooke Ellsworth (Octopus Books, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 19, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poetry. Brooke Ellsworth's first full-length collection takes on the question of what poetic expression — \"where sentences come from\" — looks like if we reject the sources of oppression that pre-exist it. Taking their cue sometimes from haibun, other times from ekphrasis, the poems in SERENADE are formally restless and multi-modal-but sustained by a feminism that defines itself by rage that is collective and private, mythological and feral. SERENADE is a book that arrives as though chewed out by the political and ecological \"turnstile event of monstrosity,\" and whose authority lies in its nuanced vulnerability: \"My authority, reader, is that I am illegible like an oil shale mine spreading its shaky legs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brooke Ellsworth grabs the detritus and heartache of our age and squeezes hard. Of course a lot escapes between her fingers, it's the poems. Sometimes they feel like elegies for people who don't know they're dead: 'the stupidest question you get \/ is if you’re lonely.' You wonder whether SERENADE is coming from ghosts or the newsfeed or Mina Loy or punk rock or what – you don’t always know who's singing, or if singing's all it is, but there's a cut-off ear listening in the grass.\" — Mark Bibbins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337260449815,"sku":"9780986181160","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_f8168492-01d6-4de6-bdb8-b5a85f2a8960.jpg?v=1586745648","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/serenade-by-brooke-ellsworth","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}