{"product_id":"autobiography-of-horse-a-poem-9780982814246","title":"Autobiography of Horse: A Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA frenetic tour of a splayed self writing through an equine obsession.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI became obsessed. I swallowed myself whole and turned into a knot. I couldn't undo myself, so I crawled inside a horse. Inside the horse I hardened, and then broke. The horse collected the pieces and glued me back together. I unraveled the horse and stitched it back together. The horse trampled me and I burned through its hooves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Horse\u003c\/em\u003e documents Jenifer Sang Eun Park's obsessive and parasitic relationship with the horse. At one point a muse, the horse is transformed into a vessel used to travel the volatile hollows of memory, selfhood, depression, and loss. To make this journey, the horse mutates from an image into a companion, a projection, and a reflection that, as Wallace Stevens wrote in \"The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words,\" injects imagination with \"the strength of reality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in lyrical prose, diagrams, photos, and conceptual excerpts from imagined texts, \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Horse\u003c\/em\u003e pieces together a true story spurred by a tormented, pathological, and, ultimately, redemptive imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gaudy Boy, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780982814246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Jenifer Sang Eun Park","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36646290030748,"sku":"9780982814246","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3473f3dc-a16c-4d50-ad3d-2544e5cf79f5.jpg?v=1603863723","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/autobiography-of-horse-a-poem-9780982814246","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}