{"product_id":"simone-kyra-palace-of-pb","title":"Simone, Kyra: Palace of Rubble","description":"\u003cp\u003eTenement Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 4, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Kyra Simone’s \u003cem\u003ePalace of Rubble\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, among other news sources. Written under constraint in the tradition of Oulipo, these hybrid works of prose are reconstructions that no longer resemble the original texts, yet draw from the same reservoir of vocabulary, conveying new images and ideas, while preserving some distant ember of the universe from which they were first generated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces printed on the cover of a newspaper Simone found discarded on a café table during the fall of Baghdad in 2003, \u003cem\u003ePalace of Rubble\u003c\/em\u003e has since evolved into an accumulation of texts invoked by a historical moment spanning the eras of Bush, Obama, Trump, and into the present day. Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, it chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms, still searching for beauty amidst the ruins of the catastrophe bequeathed to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying these hybrid texts are images of vacant buildings along the California coast, as drawn from John Divola’s photo series ‘Vandalism.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41016288870423,"sku":"9781838020071","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1705009636-900.jpg?v=1711581825","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/simone-kyra-palace-of-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}