{"product_id":"geometry-of-shadows-9780998267548","title":"Geometry of Shadows","description":"\u003cem\u003eDe Chirico's poems are as essential and as mysterious as his paintings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --Jhumpa Lahiri \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gathered from early twentieth-century Italian magazines, manuscripts, correspondence, television recordings, and ephemeral art volumes, \u003cem\u003eGeometry of Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive collection of Giorgio de Chirico's Italian poems, with award-winning poet Stefania Heim's English translations presented alongside the Italian originals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A multifaceted artist who lived in multiple languages, de Chirico was just becoming famous in France for the paintings that inspired surrealism when he returned to Italy in 1916 to enlist for the First World War. Quickly determined unfit for the front line, de Chirico was assigned to desk duty and began to write poems in his native language. Translating his iconic visual imagination into literary form, \u003cem\u003eGeometry of Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeous document celebrating the elasticity and innate potential of language, by an artist ever in pursuit of deeper understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Public Space Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998267548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 4.60w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Giorgio de Chirico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36647152746652,"sku":"9780998267548","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0dd314f3-7f76-4185-9d37-a67ce837a183.jpg?v=1603866242","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/geometry-of-shadows-9780998267548","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}