{"product_id":"dissolve-by-sherwin-bitsui-9781556595455","title":"Dissolve","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e — Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest. Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, \u003cem\u003eDissolve\u003c\/em\u003e is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century's most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"(Untitled)\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e. . . Jeweled with houseflies, \u003cbr\u003e\nleather rattles, foil-wrapped, \u003cbr\u003e\nferment in beaked masks\u003cbr\u003e\non the shores of evaporating lakes.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis plot, now a hotel garden, \u003cbr\u003e\nits fountain gushing forth -\u003cbr\u003e\nthe slashed wrists of the Colorado River.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSherwin Bitsui was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them \u003cem\u003eFlood Song\u003c\/em\u003e, which won an American Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona where he serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605603598572,"sku":"9781556595455","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781556595455-dissolve.jpg?v=1778134802","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dissolve-by-sherwin-bitsui-9781556595455","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}