{"product_id":"mirabilia-by-lisa-gorton-9781922725301","title":"Mirabilia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eMirabilia\u003c\/i\u003e test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the world's most-trafficked mammal, implicated, some say, in the evolution of coronavirus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in Fibonacci syllabics, it is also a reflection on Marianne Moore's poem \u003ci\u003eThe Pangolin\u003c\/i\u003e with its sense of nature's perpetuity lost in the years since her poem was written. The final sequence \u003ci\u003eGreat World Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the destructive extent of nuclear testing across the world in the 1960s. It was written for Izabela Pluta's artist's book \u003ci\u003eFigures of Slippage and Oscillation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence \u003ci\u003eTongue\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on da Vinci's 1478 painting \u003ci\u003eThe Benois Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e, including the circumstances of its creation in the Pazzi conspiracy and the life of Fioretta del Cittadino—perhaps the painting's model—who gave birth to the child of the murdered man. Her child was taken; she was written out of the record. In other poems too, Gorton reflects on the experience of the female muse, wife, or mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340919619820,"sku":"9781922725301","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/67ce4bec32311e5dff718420ce6e167c.jpg?v=1772190549","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mirabilia-by-lisa-gorton-9781922725301","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}