{"product_id":"culture-of-one-9780143118930","title":"Culture of One","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist\/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a \"culture of one.\" The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so the reader can keep plunging headlong into the events of the book. \u003ci\u003eCulture of One\u003c\/i\u003e offers further proof of how Notley \"has freed herself from any single notion of what poetry should be so that she can go ahead and write what poetry can be\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Notley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143118930","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713377734793,"sku":"9780143118930","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_21c83a20-0a03-4a59-b6b5-084509630a77.jpg?v=1719609673","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/culture-of-one-9780143118930","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}