{"product_id":"human-looking-by-andy-jackson-9781925818857","title":"Human Looking","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eHuman Looking\u003c\/i\u003e speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to 'correct'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey range widely, finding figures to identify with in mythology and history, art and photography, poetry and fiction. A number of poems deal with unsettling extremes of embodiment, and with violence against disabled people. Others emerge out of everyday life, and the effects of illness, pain and prejudice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe strength of the speaking voice is remarkable, as is its capacity for empathy and love. 'I, this wonderful catastrophe', the poet has Mary Shelley's monstrous figure declare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe use of unusual and disjunctive or 'deformed' poetic forms adds to the emotional impact of the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340861161708,"sku":"9781925818857","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18513903482873.jpg?v=1772172974","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/human-looking-by-andy-jackson-9781925818857","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}