{"product_id":"the-soft-path-9781629221823","title":"The Soft Path","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soft Path\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes its title from a 1970s term promoting an alternative energy future, appraises the \"unreconciled \/ losses\" of a world remade in the relentless interests of capital, a world \"revelatory in its \/ diminishment.\" Written where landscape bleeds into soundscape, where ecopoetics collides with technopoetics, this book speaks from the fragmented space of machine learning to \"memory's residue,\" in a voice that recalls American predecessors Oppen, Niedecker, and Ammons. \u003ci\u003eThe Soft Path\u003c\/i\u003e continues Harmon's exploration of both the serial poem and the long poem, from the small-but-systemic breakdowns of \"Cascading Failures\" to the epic commuting roadsong of the nearly 1500-line \"Horizontal Dropouts.\" These poems offer field notes on sites ranging from interstate off-ramps to \"hi-vis ribbons tied to \/ twig tips in the woods\"; they register tenuousness and tenacity, from an era when \"everything [is] \/ post-peak.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Soft Path\u003c\/i\u003e reasserts Lydia Davis's judgement that \"Harmon reaches deep into the resources of our rich English, renewing the language and creating from it a physical and emotional world completely his own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629221823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Joshua Harmon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023804129461,"sku":"9781629221823","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781629221823.jpg?v=1787666823","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-soft-path-9781629221823","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}