{"product_id":"disquieting-essays-on-silence-volume-8-9781771664356","title":"Disquieting: Essays on Silence Volume 8","description":"\u003ci\u003eHow do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDisquieting\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away, ? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisquieting: Essays on Silence\u003c\/i\u003e draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCYNTHIA CRUZ\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Germany and grew up in Northern California. She is the author of four previous collection of poems. Her fifth collection is \u003ci\u003eDregs \u003c\/i\u003e(Four Way Books, 2018). The editor of a new anthology of contemporary Latina poetry, \u003ci\u003eOther Musics\u003c\/i\u003e, forthcoming in 2019, Cruz is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder fellowship from Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749431771410,"sku":"9781771664356","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_136eabc1-cab2-40d4-9512-b1edb71ede9d.jpg?v=1764085015","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disquieting-essays-on-silence-volume-8-9781771664356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}