{"product_id":"the-bringers-of-fruit-an-oratorio-9781948687553","title":"The Bringers of Fruit: An Oratorio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bringers of Fruit: An Oratorio is a polyvocalic retelling of the Persephone myth that investigates memory, code, and relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Switaj's Bringers of Fruit continues Switaj's long standing engagement with myth, seen in her previous books, \u003cem\u003eA Broken Sanctuary\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMagdalene \u0026amp; the Mermaids\u003c\/em\u003e. With the repeating refrain \"I almost got away with it,\" readers wait expectantly for a confrontation that doesn't come, but instead morphs into alternate narratives. Unlike other poets' engagements with lyrical tropes, Switaj does not use mythology as a form of coerced conventionality that is often seen; she's got code. These myths, updated for the modern world, have MP3s, Ray-bans, html coding, \"join my band,\" as well as scientific language and imagery: we encounter \"prions,\" \"origami cells,\" \"nucleotides,\" \"monomers,\" and \"cyanosis.\" These poems show an examined emotionality fused with the abstract as survival technique - \"cerebral snow.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Carrie Hunter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorpselords and chthonic gods congregate in Elizabeth Switaj's underworldly \"grumble of lights.\" Myth and form alike shiver, shrivel, and arrive in the space \"where moon\/ snails suck the marrow from bones\/ they've pierced.\" These necrocantos sing the fugue songs of the dead that won't die. May we all have a psychopomp as deft of ear and image as Switaj to lead us through this encoded hell. \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eCandice Wuehle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"11:11 Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51415174021394,"sku":"9781948687553","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8c81cbf-aa34-4470-9875-35468222faf2.jpg?v=1751129804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bringers-of-fruit-an-oratorio-9781948687553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}