{"product_id":"green-roses-bloom-for-icarus-9798990230941","title":"Green Roses Bloom for Icarus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003eGreen Roses Bloom for Icarus, \u003c\/em\u003e the mythic Icarus is the floating signifier of desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat circulates among us, and whose meaning and value fluctuate arbitrarily. Thus, Icarus is the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esuperseded superstar, the haunting specter, and the symptom of our collective disease, like a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erandomly floating coronavirus particle. Icarus is also, a bad penny (or its flipside, corroded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eobverse), a flipped bird, an obscene signifier-hermaphroditic diva, and graffiti scrawl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo extricate ourselves from the circuitry of desire that the fall of Icarus catalyzed, we celebrate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe green rose, the symbol of emerging art in James Joyce's \u003cem\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMan.\u003c\/em\u003e Celebration converts the green of copper corrosion, of self-corrupting envy, into the green\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof lyric seabloom and redemptive hope. Thus, Icarus plunges into the sea of green roses, only to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebe resurrected endlessly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hiromi Yoshida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Roadside Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 8.25w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798990230941\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roadside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42999490248841,"sku":"9798990230941","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c01c8de0-590b-416a-bf72-8cb0c0df3792.jpg?v=1727159066","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/green-roses-bloom-for-icarus-9798990230941","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}