{"product_id":"stet-poems-9780691181448","title":"Stet: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining forms\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body's bounds, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life. Tapping the inventive possibilities of constrained forms, particularly the revealing limitations of the anagram, \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of serious play that brings home the connections and intimacies of language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stet,\" from the Latin for \"let it stand,\" is a proofreading term meaning to retain or return to a previous phrasing. The uncertainty of changes made and then reconsidered haunts \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e as its poems explore what is left unsaid through erasures, redaction, and the limitations of spelling. How does one \"go back\" on one's word or \"stand by\" one's decisions? Can a life be remade or revised, or is the past forever present as in a palimpsest? Embodying the physicality and reproductive potentiality inherent in the collection's forms and figures, \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e ends expectantly, not searching for closure but awaiting the messy, living possibilities of what comes next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns troubling and consoling, \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully combines lyric invention and brilliant wordplay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dora Malech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691181448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDora Malech\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eSay So\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShore Ordered Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. She is assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40767994200179,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b2e8da59-b283-412a-a05f-e2abd4708f3a.jpg?v=1679663995","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/stet-poems-9780691181448","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}