{"product_id":"transcript-of-the-disappearance-exact-and-diminishing-poems-9780822967187","title":"Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing: Poems","description":"Lynn Emanuel's sixth collection of poetry is not sequential or straightforward. It has no conventional chronology, no master narrative. Instead, it is a life story, with all the chaos and messiness entailed therein. \u003ci\u003eTranscript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing\u003c\/i\u003e is a commotion of grief and wit, audacious images, poems, and paragraphs. It explores and centers on the possibilities and limitations of art in the face of disappearances of many kinds, including the disappearance that is most personal--the poet's own. \u003cb\u003e--PLAGUE'S MONOLOGUE\u003c\/b\u003e I erased the world so nothing can find it, snuffed out the roses, red and hot as the snouts of bombs, repealed the polar ice cap, even that fat oxymoron, the \"industrial park,\" has disappeared. And the last few words huddled together, like bees in a hive buzzing and plotting? I cut their throats with the scythe of a comma, turned the snout of my pen against them. I saved by erasing the streets and the people--let them be overgrown with absence. I don't care--there is no limit to my appetite, my lust, my zeal for emptiness. But I know you--and you have kept a transcript of the disappearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Emanuel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNoose and Hook, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Nerve of It\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has been collected numerous times in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and included in T\u003ci\u003ehe Oxford Book of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been published and reviewed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, BOMB Magazine, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly.\u003c\/i\u003e She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at many venues including the Warren Wilson Program and the Bread Loaf Conference.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522237993234,"sku":"9780822967187","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a64282d-643b-4a1b-b99f-ed0c23611d66.jpg?v=1731114832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/transcript-of-the-disappearance-exact-and-diminishing-poems-9780822967187","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}