{"product_id":"umbilical-hospital-by-vi-khi-nao","title":"Nao, Vi Khi: Umbilical Hospital","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUmbilical Hospital\u003c\/em\u003e by Vi Khi Nao (1913 Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 1, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003ePoetry. Asian \u0026amp; Asian American Studies. Film. Art. UMBILICAL HOSPITAL is a poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSheep Machine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, part of her Binocular Series. Filmed in Saas-Fee, it shows a flock of sheep grazing next to the structural support of cable car system. Leslie Thornton views her video installation as film paintings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Imagine an entity composed of sheep, wheat, assholes, clitorises, stars. Why not? That would be this poem, this world—a perfectly recognizable post-human world which is also post surreal. Vi Khi Nao is making it new, no, she is doing the old job of making us see what's already here in a new way. We're already part of the bunny-frog and the sheep machine and we're feeling fine. This is bold, fresh, necessary work.\"—Rae Armantrout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this book—a vision of a vision—to see is to become. To count, or be counted, is to transform. Vi Khi Nao promises her readers to 'split in half, to spread-eagle, to alter\/the delirium of grass.' Heady, dreamy, painful and acute, the images in these poems recombine to digest, rather than describe, Leslie Thornton's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSheep Machine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Certainly, one must look at the body from two very different eyes at once for it to become an umbilical hospital.\"—Sophia Dahlin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337267658775,"sku":"9780999004920","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_5982e2b8-2323-47b7-bda7-84e386437d67.jpg?v=1586745835","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/umbilical-hospital-by-vi-khi-nao","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}