{"product_id":"i-nadja-and-other-poems-9781894078535","title":"I, Nadja and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that reach towards the lost or the might have been.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn her debut collection, Susan Elmslie delves into the life and mental illness of the real person behind André Breton's surrealist romance, \u003ci\u003eNadja,\u003c\/i\u003e recovering the story of a flesh and blood woman who became a symbol for the unknowability of the feminine and the irrational side of the human psyche. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eI, Nadja\u003c\/i\u003e is about many women as Elmslie's lyrically astute, confident lines move into the daily world of motherhood, adolescent memories and heroines like Marie Curie and George Sand. With her great fury of a voice, Elmslie's poems are forthright and daring, fearlessly rhapsodic, as \"they sing\/your shape through doorways,...sing\/the whole house awake.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I can get perfect distance between us—maybe\u003cbr\u003elanguage is what washes the sheets eventually,\u003cbr\u003esnapping on the line, telling us how neat things must be.\u003cbr\u003eLike irony: a man spent eighteen years building a plane, only\u003cbr\u003eto have it crash on its maiden flight, killing him completely.\u003cbr\u003eSome throw themselves in to the role of the timeless lover,\u003cbr\u003ebelieving only in their own ability to endure, endure,\u003cbr\u003eand prepare for that chance meeting at an airport bar.\u003cbr\u003eYou look at me and I know I have blown my cover.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from \"Four Postcards\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Elmslie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278419341563,"sku":"9781894078535","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781894078535.jpg?v=1772487899","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/i-nadja-and-other-poems-9781894078535","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}