{"product_id":"the-echo-chamber-by-michael-bazzett-9781571315380","title":"The Echo Chamber","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of \u003cem\u003eThe Popol Vuh\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNarcissus was never one to see himself \/\/ in moving water. \/\/ He liked his image \/ still.\u003c\/em\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Echo Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e, myth is refracted into our current moment. A time traveller teaches a needleworker the pleasures of social media gratification. A man goes looking for his face and is first offered a latex mask. A book reveals eerie transmutations of a simple story. And the myth itself is retold, probing its most provocative qualities—how reflective waters enable self-absorption, and the tragicrightness of Echo and Narcissus as a couple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Echo Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e examines our endlessly self-referential age of selfies, televised wars, and manufactured celebrity, gazing lingeringly into the many kinds of damage it produces, and the truths obscured beneath its polished surface. In the process, Bazzett cements his status as one of our great poetic fools—the comedian who delivers uncomfortable silence, who sheds layers of disguises to reveal light underneath, who smuggles wisdom within \"rage-mothered laughter.\" Late-stage capitalism, history, death itself: all are subject to his wry, tender gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns searing, compassionate, and darkly humorous, \u003cem\u003eThe Echo Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e creates an echo through time, holding up the broken mirror of myth to our present-day selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461528174828,"sku":"9781571315380","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781571315380-the-echo-chamber.jpg?v=1774970583","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-echo-chamber-by-michael-bazzett-9781571315380","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}