{"product_id":"ars-poeticas","title":"Ars Poeticas","description":"\u003cb\u003eLyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e During the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times. In the six ars poeticas that Spahr writes, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades. She writes not only of the rich history of what politics and poetry have done with each other, but what they might yet do together.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [Sample Poem]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e from ARS POETICA 1: CORAL\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To write poetry after Castle Bravo.\u003cbr\u003e Then to write poetry after 1500 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After high-quality steel frame buildings\u003cbr\u003e not completely collapsed, except\u003cbr\u003e all panels and roofs blown in.\u003cbr\u003e After 2,000 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After reinforced concrete buildings collapsed\u003cbr\u003e or standing but badly damaged.\u003cbr\u003e After 3,500 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After church buildings completely destroyed.\u003cbr\u003e After brick walls severely cracked.\u003cbr\u003e After 4,400 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After 5,300 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After roof tiles bubbled and melted.\u003cbr\u003e After 6,500 feet.\u003cbr\u003e After mass distortion of large steel buildings.\u003cbr\u003e To write the Cold War and doves.\u003cbr\u003e The Cold War and tapeworms.\u003cbr\u003e The Cold War and sails of ships.\u003cbr\u003e The Cold War and the steel of bridges.\u003cbr\u003e To write poetry after that.\u003cbr\u003e To write in a world with few nutrients,\u003cbr\u003e one that rocks back and forth.\u003cbr\u003e The same beginning in both the sea and the land.\u003cbr\u003e To write poetry that knows a hard, cup-shaped skeleton.\u003cbr\u003e And then poetry that knows\u003cbr\u003e the long, stinging tentacles capturing.\u003cbr\u003e Knows the water.\u003cbr\u003e The Atlantic and the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e The connections between.\u003cbr\u003e The one moving into the other.\u003cbr\u003e To develop poetry in the stomach\u003cbr\u003e that then exits through the mouth\u003cbr\u003e which is the anus.\u003cbr\u003e To write poetry in the blue\u003cbr\u003e that is the absence of green.\u003cbr\u003e Light penetration.\u003cbr\u003e Whorls of tentacles.\u003cbr\u003e The slime earth too.\u003cbr\u003e Hunters and farmers.\u003cbr\u003e Shallow water.\u003cbr\u003e Few nutrients.\u003cbr\u003e High fecundity.\u003cbr\u003e Rapid growth.\u003cbr\u003e Multiarmed morphology and tube feet.\u003cbr\u003e To write tube feet.\u003cbr\u003e To write the exact place.\u003cbr\u003e Seaward slope place.\u003cbr\u003e Sea terrace place.\u003cbr\u003e Algal ridge place.\u003cbr\u003e Coral algal zone place.\u003cbr\u003e Seaward reef flat place.\u003cbr\u003e Islet or interisland reef crest place.\u003cbr\u003e Lagoon reef flat place.\u003cbr\u003e Lagoon terrace place.\u003cbr\u003e Lagoon floor or basin place.\u003cbr\u003e Coral knolls, pinnacle and patch reefs place.\u003cbr\u003e To write poetry after.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Ars Poeticas","offer_id":46187456626885,"sku":null,"price":63.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-8195-0152-3.jpg?v=1778120400","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ars-poeticas","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}