{"product_id":"victor-divya-kithpb","title":"Victor, Divya: Kith","description":"\u003cp\u003eFence Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 12, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA complex and moving array of imagistic arguments-with-history about skin, postcolonialism, travel, exile, fluids, and cultural materialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edescribes postcolonialist relation from the painful psychohistorical perspective of a hybrid, in multiple exiles. Victor reaps the pain, reams the pain, approaches the painful material from striated vantages, using discrete methodologies of extraction. This is not a pretty poetry of nostalgia for bittersweet pungencies, no invitation to savor bemusing exoticisms; this poetry invites disassociation from that which is no longer to be borne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Dromomania\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ein one such case a woman embroidering the name of her fourth child into the mantelpiece tapestry was called by her husband to suckle oil from the Persian gulf in a city that clotted around a oasis where centuries ago star crossed lovers failed each other-- Layla and Majnun: she dying in waiting, he walking miles and kissing every wall to know if she lived behind it-- and from which she would return without her hair and with a spool of thread to spell again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-- later this story was told to children in a kitchen while\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003esmoothing the ruffled mackerel gills and sharpening knives on grey slabs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof granite drawn from a quarry where men had fallen over and over in love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith their own destinies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41624964104215,"sku":"9781934200575","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781934200575-us.jpg?v=1747860814","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/victor-divya-kithpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}