{"product_id":"this-isa-nice-neighborhood-9780981522753","title":"This Isa Nice Neighborhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan identity be pliant and penetrable? Can the speech act be one of attention over intention, can play and fluidity open onto an ethic? \u003ci\u003e This Isa Nice Neighborhood \u003c\/i\u003e, Farid Matuk’s first full-length collection, says yes. Yes to the rejection of any opposition between politics and aesthetics, between rhetoric and poetics. Yes to vulnerability. Yes to a poetry willing to enact the errors, uncertainties, and tangled complexities of our political, sexual, and social lives. Testing both narrative and lyric, Matuk finds desire at the root of each, a root from which, these poems suggest, compassion and permission grow intertwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e This Isa Nice Neighborhood \u003c\/i\u003e has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Awards, named a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award by the Poetry Society of America, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farid Matuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274186371323,"sku":"9780981522753","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_cffab564-c1c2-43bb-be49-c4157f193014.jpg?v=1771033017","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/this-isa-nice-neighborhood-9780981522753","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}