{"product_id":"genghis-chan-on-drums-by-john-yau-9781632431004","title":"Genghis Chan on Drums","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, \u003ci\u003eGenghis Chan on Drums\u003c\/i\u003e is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese. Employing various forms, John Yau’s poems traverse a range of subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo’s imaginary sister, and a nameless gumshoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYau moves effortlessly from using the rhyme scheme of a sixteenth-century Edmund Spenser sonnet to riffing on a well-known poem-rant by the English poet Sean Bonney, and to immersing himself in the words of condolence sent by a former president to the survivors of a school massacre. Yau’s poems are conduits through which many different, conflicting, and unsavory voices strive to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463054246124,"sku":"9781632431004","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431004-genghis-chan-on-drums.jpg?v=1775027566","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/genghis-chan-on-drums-by-john-yau-9781632431004","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}