{"product_id":"our-prediction-9781531513139","title":"Our Prediction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eOur Prediction \u003c\/i\u003eare lifted from a folder of sketchy reports recalling the strange neutral­ity of the ancient chorus. And this intimate archive exposes a fear of language concealed at the root of poetry, delivering a book in which doubt, shame, and dread overtake poetry’s stereotypical love affair with words, a book that crosses over into the exclusion zone of stupidity and never returns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreeding and scavenging without scruple or restraint, the “bare life” of these unauthorized poems invariably confuses reading and writing. Listening becomes the business of speaking, of saying \u003ci\u003ewe \u003c\/i\u003ebut not asking who. And in its crooked way, the crooked text may begin to sound like a campfire oath of senseless plots and garbled refrains. For the listener soon will be surrounded by an accident of voices—a cassandrian short cut—exposing the particulars of \u003ci\u003enot-yet-being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Tiffany","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282469761275,"sku":"9781531513139","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781531513139.jpg?v=1772484635","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/our-prediction-9781531513139","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}