{"product_id":"rocket-fantastic-poems-9780892554928","title":"Rocket Fantastic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike nothing before it, in \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital book for our time.\"--Diana Whitney, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalvocoressi, Gabrielle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eApocalyptic Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an editor-at-large for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717780672786,"sku":"9780892554928","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e98a24e-405d-47a3-bb05-21b0e6c94fd5.jpg?v=1734626412","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rocket-fantastic-poems-9780892554928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}