{"product_id":"our-prediction-9781531513139","title":"Our Prediction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eOur Prediction \u003c\/i\u003eare lifted from a folder of sketchy reports recalling the strange neutral-ity of the ancient chorus. And this intimate archive exposes a fear of language concealed at the root of poetry, delivering a book in which doubt, shame, and dread overtake poetry's stereotypical love affair with words, a book that crosses over into the exclusion zone of stupidity and never returns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBreeding and scavenging without scruple or restraint, the \"bare life\" of these unauthorized poems invariably confuses reading and writing. Listening becomes the business of speaking, of saying \u003ci\u003ewe \u003c\/i\u003ebut not asking who. And in its crooked way, the crooked text may begin to sound like a campfire oath of senseless plots and garbled refrains. For the listener soon will be surrounded by an accident of voices--a cassandrian short cut--exposing the particulars of \u003ci\u003enot-yet-being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Tiffany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531513139","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45521316774025,"sku":"9781531513139","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_31f17356-0906-4583-93e5-8ad6debb08d9.jpg?v=1776227208","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/our-prediction-9781531513139","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}