{"product_id":"furniture-music-9781950268863","title":"Furniture Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFurniture Music\u003c\/em\u003e, Montreal legend Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark's Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club, Scott writes from a 'Northern' awareness that is both immediate and inquisitive, from Obama's election to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. Here, readers are situated in conversations around citizenship, gender performance, class, race, feminism, and what it means to write \u003cem\u003enow. \u003c\/em\u003eAnd the author is less a single voice than an assembler, ventriloquizing not only present voices but also a host of earlier writers and philosophers, notably, Gertrude Stein, Viktor Shklovsky, Walter Benjamin. The result is a staggering work of insight and hope during a critical time in American politics and art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGail Scott is the author of \u003ci\u003ePermanent Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Book*Hug Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, \u003ci\u003eSpare Parts\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 1981), \u003ci\u003eHeroine\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 1987, re-issued in 2019 with an introduction by Eileen Myles by Nightboat), \u003ci\u003eMain Brides\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 1993), \u003ci\u003eMy Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (Dalkey Archive, 1999), \u003ci\u003eSpare Parts Plus Two\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 2002), and \u003ci\u003eThe Obituary\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 2010; Nightboat 2012). Her essays are collected in \u003ci\u003eSpaces Like Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e (Womens Press, 1989) and in \u003ci\u003eLa Théorie, un dimanche\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) which was translated into English as \u003ci\u003eTheory, A Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e (Belladonna, 2013). Scott is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology: \u003ci\u003eBiting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House, 2004). Her translation of Michael Delisle's \u003ci\u003eLe désarroi du matelot \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for a 2001 Governor General's Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727196295442,"sku":"9781950268863","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20f7c4b9-489d-4ba7-bc63-393bfdfae34f.jpg?v=1734895683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/furniture-music-9781950268863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}