{"title":"Virginia Konchan","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirginia Konchan's works explore the delicate interplay between language and the arts, offering readers a profound immersion into cultural and emotional landscapes. Her writing is distinguished by an elegant, evocative style that reflects a deep appreciation for both narrative form and artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect nuanced reflections and beautifully crafted prose that engage with themes of communication, identity, and creativity. Konchan's literature is a celebration of the arts, inviting contemplation and a richer understanding of cultural experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bel-canto-by-virginia-konchan-9780887486845","title":"Bel Canto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection belonging to the post-confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast-talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuggesting that revolutionary change will be linguistic, or will not be at all, \u003ci\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/i\u003e critiques the alienating forces of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy by restoring primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity through a kaleidoscopic array of registers, modes, and idioms ironic and sincere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What human could stay so quiet?\" asks the speaker of \"Epistle\": \"One who is secretly on fire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536293511404,"sku":"9780887486845","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780887486845-bel-canto.jpg?v=1776380372"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/virginia-konchan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}