{"product_id":"bel-canto-9780887486845","title":"Bel Canto","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBel Canto \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection belonging to the post-confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast-talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. Suggesting that revolutionary change will be linguistic, or will not be at all, \u003ci\u003eBel Canto \u003c\/i\u003ecritiques the alienating forces of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy by restoring primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity through a kaleidoscopic array of registers, modes, and idioms ironic and sincere. \"What human could stay so quiet?\" asks the speaker of \"Epistle\" \"One who is secretly on fire.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carnegie-Mellon University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887486845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80","brand":"Virginia Konchan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42487310844085,"sku":"9780887486845","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bb9ac364-a39f-4aa1-8ca1-f11030542b51.jpg?v=1667315452","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bel-canto-9780887486845","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}