{"product_id":"emblem","title":"Emblem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmblem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet’s Prize.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmblem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erevitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood, faith and the interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn ghostly conversation with the sixteenth-century emblematist Andrea Alciato – a witness to a lonely time – the poems are carried forward by a non-linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciato’s emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body, child and mother, red and green, past and present, public and private, the living and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Poetry Book Society Summer 2022 Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003cbr\u003ePaperback with French flaps\u003cbr\u003e210 x 140mm, 112pp\u003cbr\u003eblack-and-white images throughout\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781913513221\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lucy Mercer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51970939027758,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2263\/4647\/files\/Emblem_reprint_cover_1.jpg?v=1776583061","url":"https:\/\/3ssstudios.com\/products\/emblem","provider":"Bungee Space by 3standardstoppage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}