{"product_id":"surreal-expulsion-paperback","title":"Surreal Expulsion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. R. James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMeredith Ridl\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eShawn Aveningo Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurreal Expulsion's\u003c\/em\u003e title poem responds not only bluntly to the 2018 mass shooting that left seventeen dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School but ultimately to the socio-political negligence and indifference behind violence and injustice worldwide. In assorted other blasts D. R. James confronts contemporary issues and personal skirmishes against \"sapient insufficiency\" through free verse and hijacked forms (prose poem, cento, sonnet, villanelle), arresting images and twisted wit, exposé and surreality. \u003cem\u003eIn toto, \u003c\/em\u003e the collection wrestles, now soberly, now sardonically, with strains of \"barbarity, barrels of it\" as well as of \"the calm shadowy fraud.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdvance Praise for \u003cem\u003eSurreal Expulsion: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD.R. James's \u003cem\u003eSurreal Expulsion\u003c\/em\u003e does not close itself to the events of our historical moment, but invites them into the \"fortress of language\" to work their \"eccentric twisting in the inexplicable path.\" With textured lines and crackling diction, these poems register our nervous collective pulse.\u003cbr\u003e -- Ellen McGrath Smith, editor of \u003cem\u003eBullets into Bells, \u003c\/em\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eScatter, Feed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNobody's Jackknife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eSurreal Expulsion\u003c\/em\u003e are both topical and wise as they address the human condition, and they deftly walk the line between gravitas and levity. They wake the mind and ask us to consider our place among the masses; as verbal \u003cem\u003eamuse-bouches\u003c\/em\u003e, they feel good in the mouth and ask to be savored.\u003cbr\u003e -- Sonia Greenfield, editor of \u003cem\u003eRise Up Review\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Parable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems of resistance pluck an activist's strings most intimately. Cry out, if you must, rend your clothes, gnash your teeth to stubs, lament like a Scotch-Irish ballad, but they will have you know: these abominations are ours, \"in a language we now must teach across America.\" They are a call to action. How will you respond?\u003cbr\u003e -- Kit-Bacon Gressitt, publisher \/ founding editor of \u003cem\u003eWriters Resist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWriters Resist Anthology 2018\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48163414966531,"sku":"9781948461245","price":90.82,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/Dwb7WrCnWM9781948461245.webp?v=1779022245","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ae\/products\/surreal-expulsion-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}