{"product_id":"capsid-a-love-song-9781945023033","title":"Capsid: A Love Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer from rural Washington State. His writing has been published in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGawker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Wire\u003c\/em\u003e, where he is an Associate Editor. He's currently a post-doctoral fellow in systems biology at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOsmundson describes \u003cem\u003eCapsid: A Love Song\u003c\/em\u003e as an essay \"On HIV, desire, science, queerness, love.\" The book is a long-form essay that incorporates eight prose poems, each one inspired by a different phase in the life cycle of HIV. A person infected with a virus is called a host, and that makes the virus the guest, and sometimes a guest becomes a friend, and sometimes a friend becomes a lover. Osmundson explores the intimacy of the relatioinship between an HIV-positive person and his virus. His scientific perspective makes this young gay man an especially poignant singer of this love song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indolent Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50698009870610,"sku":"9781945023033","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57aa6168-08b7-473d-b383-2eb419e06016.jpg?v=1734314770","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/capsid-a-love-song-9781945023033","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}