{"product_id":"weak-link-by-rob-halpern","title":"Halpern, Rob: Weak Link","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeak Link \u003c\/em\u003eby Rob Halpern (Atelos, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 15, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. WEAK LINK is an interstitial work containing poems, poem-essays, prose sequences, letters, translations, exercises, and manifestos. Everything collected in it has been recovered from the faults and cracks within and between four books—RUMORED PLACE, DISASTER SUITES, MUSIC FOR PORN and COMMON PLACE—which together comprise one long serial work. No book can ever contain itself, so while the work included in WEAK LINK has not been moored to any of the aforementioned titles, it remains integral to the larger canvass this work exceeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA critical essay on WEAK LINK's title sequence, called \"Contemporary Lyric and Epic Constraints: A Reading of Rob Halpern's Weak Link,\" by John Wilkinson, appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 55:2 (Spring 2010).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337274408983,"sku":"9781891190421","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_5858f138-b94b-4403-8086-ab85ec79c0c1.jpg?v=1586745990","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/weak-link-by-rob-halpern","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}