{"product_id":"aboutness-2","title":"Aboutness","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical \/ carnage. This is my excuse for everything.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntensive and extensive, \u003cem\u003eaboutness\u003c\/em\u003e convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation with interlocutors living and dead, real and imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet against a break-up with God, insomniac nights, and smoke-filled skies, this virgule-infused song of negation is by turns wry, performative, and sober. Threads of self-making are juxtaposed with an ever-unfolding present exposing the limits and possibilities of convergence. Marked by digression, asides, qualifiers, and a substructure of endnotes that together create layers of indeterminacy, \u003cem\u003eaboutness\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader from \u003cem\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/em\u003e to Ganesh, Roland Barthes to Catullus, blue flamingoes to Ophelia, Agnes Martin to St Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaunted by the ghost of the text not realized, this is poetry that resists ossification and refuses to stand still, where the process of production is itself invited to the carnival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220924584280,"sku":"9780228019022","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228019022.jpg?v=1778499930","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/aboutness-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}