{"product_id":"sprawl-9781940696775","title":"Sprawl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.\" --\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Danielle Dutton's \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL's \"fierce, careful composition\"--as \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e wrote--\"which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I can't seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Dutton \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First, SPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAttempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper's, The White Review, Fence, BOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanielle Dutton is the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Attempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528474923282,"sku":"9781940696775","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a958f7ad-870c-4c24-bafb-ca000fa128b3.jpg?v=1731327094","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sprawl-9781940696775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}