{"product_id":"capsid-a-love-song-9781945023033","title":"Capsid: A Love Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer from rural Washington State. His writing has been published in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGawker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Wire\u003c\/em\u003e, where he is an Associate Editor. He's currently a post-doctoral fellow in systems biology at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOsmundson describes \u003cem\u003eCapsid: A Love Song\u003c\/em\u003e as an essay \"On HIV, desire, science, queerness, love.\" The book is a long-form essay that incorporates eight prose poems, each one inspired by a different phase in the life cycle of HIV. A person infected with a virus is called a host, and that makes the virus the guest, and sometimes a guest becomes a friend, and sometimes a friend becomes a lover. Osmundson explores the intimacy of the relatioinship between an HIV-positive person and his virus. His scientific perspective makes this young gay man an especially poignant singer of this love song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indolent Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945023033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Joseph Osmundson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672041779356,"sku":"9781945023033","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_923940b7-8fcd-4c96-9260-dd419c2267de.jpg?v=1603926821","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/capsid-a-love-song-9781945023033","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}