{"product_id":"sprawl-9781940696775","title":"Sprawl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.\" --\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Danielle Dutton's \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL's \"fierce, careful composition\"--as \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e wrote--\"which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I can't seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Dutton \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First, SPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAttempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper's, The White Review, Fence, BOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Danielle Dutton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671520342172,"sku":"9781940696775","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2c0d92f7-c0db-4840-9784-6f33066a5db6.jpg?v=1603925603","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sprawl-9781940696775","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}