{"product_id":"strange-beach-by-oluwaseun-olayiwola-9781804271551","title":"Strange Beach","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in \u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures, and sexual reckonings occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection ventures across the same 'Atlantic Ocean' as Claudia Rankine's \u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e, which is the same 'Atlantic Ocean' in Lowell's \u003cem\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, to reveal a queer consciousness deeply steeped in poetic traditions of nuanced confession and moving abstraction. \u003cem\u003eStrange Beach\u003c\/em\u003e is geological in its accumulation of images, emotions, and landscapes that stack, revolve, and eschew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting work transmutes messages to the mind of the reader with a feeling of cosmic intuitiveness, as emotion and intellect grapple and become forged. \"No one can follow you here \/ not having to become something else,\" observes one speaker, in this collection that reimagines how we love, grow, travel, and most of all, change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47616452624620,"sku":"9781804271551","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804271551-strange-beach.jpg?v=1778459377","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/strange-beach-by-oluwaseun-olayiwola-9781804271551","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}