{"product_id":"the-unsignificant-9798891060067","title":"The Unsignificant","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unsignificant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThree Talks on Poetry and Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award-finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015\u003c\/b\u003e.True to its title, \u003ci\u003eThe Unsignificant\u003c\/i\u003e is concerned with what it's \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e about--not the logical proofs of philosophy but the affective flux of poetry. The lectures approach poetry from Homer to Gertrude Stein to Ronald Johnson obliquely, refracted through images such as Brueghel's \"Landscape with Fall of Icarus,\" Hermann Rorschach's inkblots, or Galileo's drawings of the moon. Ranging from pictorial backgrounds in visual art to portraiture and similes to the poetics of wonder, \u003ci\u003eThe Unsignificant\u003c\/i\u003e embarks on an unsystematic, errant, and eccentric tour of Western poetry and poetics from the ancient world to our continuous present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSrikanth Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e's latest book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eUnderworld Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America's T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e \"Book of the Year\" for 2020. His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e; he is currently the poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press. The recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Reddy is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893233520914,"sku":"9798891060067","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee565f22-4492-4aae-b0dd-1f1db5b4197d.jpg?v=1738227420","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unsignificant-9798891060067","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}