{"product_id":"boy-by-consuelo-wise-9781632431301","title":"boy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hybrid book-length poem in which the protagonist grapples with a great loss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilises repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss and identity. Moving between sound and image, aggression and subtlety, \u003cem\u003eboy\u003c\/em\u003e pries open memories that resist understanding but also refuse to be forgotten. Wise peels back layers of mourning, considering how it can be experienced as a personal, inherited, environmental, social, and historical phenomenon. Throughout, the protagonist in \u003cem\u003eboy\u003c\/em\u003e reenvisions ways to process a great loss, listening closely and searching for words while \"the earth is shaking and the silence pressing down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460520820972,"sku":"9781632431301","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431301-boy.jpg?v=1774947565","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/boy-by-consuelo-wise-9781632431301","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}