{"product_id":"rain-in-plural-poems-9780691203560","title":"Rain in Plural: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRain in Plural\u003c\/i\u003e is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus \u003c\/i\u003eas \"a master of musicality and enlightening allusions.\" In the wholly original world of these new poems, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e, using silence and montage, lyric and antilyric, to envision what she calls \"creating between liberties.\" With a moral precision embracing \u003ci\u003eus\u003c\/i\u003e without eschewing \u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e, she rethinks questions of citizenship, the selections of sensory memory, and, by extension, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes, \"I accept the truth in newspapers \/ by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. \/\/ To each weather forecast I give thanks: \/ \u003ci\u003emerci\u003c\/i\u003e for every outdated \/\/ dusk\/dawn.\" Agrippina the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bob Dylan, a butoh performance, an unnamed Raku tea bowl-each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness, synchrony, coincidences, and accidents, \u003ci\u003eRain in Plural\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691203560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Fiona Sze-Lorrain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36640189415580,"sku":"9780691203560","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_046bca85-1baa-48e1-9192-8917a2da569f.jpg?v=1603851607","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rain-in-plural-poems-9780691203560","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}