{ "item_title" : "Human Is to Wander", "item_author" : [" Adrian Lürssen "], "item_description" : "If we are always at war, is all poetry then war poetry? Adrian L rssen's Human Is to Wander is a book of dislocation, migration, and witness at a time of war--but whose war, fought where, and at what costs to whom? Born and raised in apartheid-era South Africa, L rssen migrated to the U.S. as a teen in order to avoid military service at a time when the country's authoritarian regime engaged in a protracted, largely unknown war in Angola. Years later, as a father of young children in his adopted country, echoes of everything his family thought they had left behind has returned: endless bloody conflicts on the horizon; an alarming rise of authoritarianism and nationalistic fervor; pervasive racism, inequality, and daily violence in a country whose mythic promise was once held as freedom, equality, opportunity. In Human Is to Wander, L rssen explores these echoes of his personal history within a landscape that is familiar and unfamiliar all at once. Neither the brutally oppressive South Africa of his childhood nor the precarious United States of today, L rssen's landscape emerges in the broken rhyme between troop and troupe where our captions / are picture less and the plan to explain is absolute, but only an entrance. His is an inner landscape as song no longer sung in a mother tongue, in which the human cost of war, climate crisis, and forced migration is all part of the explanation. L rssen uses collage, constrained cut-up, Oulipean procedures, abecedarian, and other generative play to allow poems to emerge that respond to the turmoil and dislocation of this violent century, attempting to witness if not understand his--and our--place in it.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/88/563/583/1885635834_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.95", "online_price" : "16.95", "our_price" : "16.95", "club_price" : "16.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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