{"product_id":"beautiful-safe-free-9781312777798","title":"Beautiful, Safe \u0026 Free","description":"Sifting through the linguistic, economic, and cultural detritus of 21st-century America, Douglas Piccinnini's Beautiful, Safe \u0026amp; Free achieves a poetics of intimate alienation, with \"new scenery made \/ by what is missing.\" These refreshingly unpredictable poems use disjunction and divagation along with repetition and lyricism to arrive at unsettling truths where \"living behind a shield of inaction\" is revealed as \"a life of crime.\" Whether \"here in the leavemealone performance of violence\" or in \"the fuckyourself future,\" Piccinnini navigates individual and collective desires-\"I imagine myself \/ through desire,\" \"you must live \/ by loss of desire,\" \"to live comfortably \/ yet desire differently\"-to confront a life \"uncomfortable in love\" and \"unreasonable in dreams.\" Embracing both \"viral meaning\" and \"private dreaming,\" every poem manages to be simultaneously mysterious and revelatory. -Brian Henry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Piccinnini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781312777798\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu.com","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41021982244979,"sku":"9.78131E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2a6799aa-c26f-4328-af3e-ed5a44047907.jpg?v=1697723307","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/beautiful-safe-free-9781312777798","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}