{"product_id":"turpentine-headache-9798991833486","title":"Turpentine Headache","description":"\u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens's claim, in his \"Adagia,\" that \"all poetry is experimental poetry\" serves as a tacit framework for \u003ci\u003eTurpentine Headache\u003c\/i\u003e. The book brings together the minimalist and maximalist tendencies that have defined Jeffrey Gustavson's years-long exploration of the lyric possibilities inherent in traversals of what he calls \"the jungle of language.\" In effect, the work investigates the preconditions of utterance as a source for poems, seeking to inhabit \"grammars of existence\" that seem anterior to speech itself, let alone writing. Central to the project is a serendipitous reversal: the possibility that language is not an instrument to be commanded but a force to be surrendered to. His explorations have yielded poems of unexpected refinement, intriguingly eclectic subject-matter, and an almost uncanny naïveté--\"ancient and remote,\" he says, \"like baubles some careworn archetype has outgrown and discarded.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Gustavson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Epiphany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.08h x 5.04w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991833486","brand":"Epiphany","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836626227337,"sku":"9798991833486","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_97af30b5-ffd6-4fa9-b20e-0fd8ab9bb102.jpg?v=1780441378","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/turpentine-headache-9798991833486","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}