{"product_id":"bel-canto-paperback","title":"Bel Canto - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Konchan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBel Canto \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection belonging to the post-confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast-talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. Suggesting that revolutionary change will be linguistic, or will not be at all, \u003ci\u003eBel Canto \u003c\/i\u003ecritiques the alienating forces of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy by restoring primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity through a kaleidoscopic array of registers, modes, and idioms ironic and sincere. \"What human could stay so quiet?\" asks the speaker of \"Epistle\" \"One who is secretly on fire.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Konchan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003e Hallelujah Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAny God Will Do\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e; a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eAnatomical Gift\u003c\/i\u003e; and four chapbooks, as well as coeditor of the craft anthology \u003ci\u003eMarbles on the Floor\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eHow to Assemble a Book of Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697123332159,"sku":"9780887486845","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ff34f13505ee9aa162a1804cf5f6ba4d.webp?v=1765008541","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/bel-canto-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}