{"product_id":"aases-death-by-aase-berg-9781965154076","title":"Aase's Death","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA linguistically playful and dark book of poems from one of Sweden's most influential and unique poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title \u003cem\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/em\u003e to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it's parodic, it's darkly parodic. A defiantly dark laughter animates the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's also, like most of her writing, a slangy, linguistically playful book. Berg has argued that at the heart of language is \"a kind of happy babbling for the sake of babbling.\" But in \u003cem\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/em\u003e, even \"death\"—we can also see in this failure to comply with rules, a kind of bodily, mimetic rebellion, a kind of insurrectionary depression. This is the state of \u003cem\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/em\u003e: a poetics of failing to use the right words, failing to be good, failing to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47604872052972,"sku":"9781965154076","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781965154076-aase-s-death.jpg?v=1778114080","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/aases-death-by-aase-berg-9781965154076","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}