{"product_id":"border-towns-9781564787651","title":"Border Towns","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe several essays that comprise \u003ci\u003eBorder Towns\u003c\/i\u003e chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays' topics--color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, public transit, etc., --make an unlikely field. But through all its pages the book traces and describes acts of situation; and--for all its werewolves, green-grocers, and paeans to miscegenation and migration--its interest is not in capturing but in \"the shape of reference itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title figure of the border town serves as a \"beard\" for the unassimilable. The author, whose other Dalkey books are poetry books, writes, \"The mistake or the short-sightedness is to perceive border towns as finite or one-to-one compositions, or as places where monoliths stretch and mingle; or stare at one another.....Perhaps at best is border town--the term--the gesture toward something that's actually untenable or untenably awkward.\" So \u003ci\u003eBorder Towns\u003c\/i\u003e--the book of essays--is perhaps, finally, a book about poetry. (\"It often seems to me,\" writes the author, \"that one of the best uses to which prose can be put is describing poetry.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564787651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"C. S. Giscombe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659938295964,"sku":"9781564787651","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_46317e74-cfa6-4c42-bd57-211a9d07e38b.jpg?v=1603895730","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/border-towns-9781564787651","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}