{"product_id":"toxicon-arachne-by-joyelle-mcsweeney-9781472156051","title":"Toxicon \u0026 Arachne","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese two books, \u003cem\u003eToxicon \u0026amp; Arachne\u003c\/em\u003e, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToxicon \u0026amp; Arachne\u003c\/em\u003e is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47616454721772,"sku":"9781472156051","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472156051-toxicon-arachne.jpg?v=1778459836","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/toxicon-arachne-by-joyelle-mcsweeney-9781472156051","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}