{"product_id":"romance-or-the-end-poems-9781593765842","title":"Romance or the End: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book takes me right back to the Carnage Years―yours, too―sacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahn's wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating, coy, bloody, and so true I wanted to memorize lines from them.\"\u003c\/b\u003e ―Rachel Kushner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomance or The End\u003c\/i\u003e takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative's power to both disfigure and restore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eROMANCE or THE END\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book about love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd it is a book about lies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove can be a lie, but it is also always true.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book about truth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book about story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is no such thing as a true story and so there are no stories in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithout a story, there is separation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a book about separation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEverything is a story. Even the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593765842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Elaine Kahn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661031633052,"sku":"9781593765842","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8e35deff-b0e0-4323-ada7-5a5d00c6d61c.jpg?v=1603898243","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/romance-or-the-end-poems-9781593765842","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}