{"product_id":"dead-ringer-1","title":"Dead Ringer","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDead Ringer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCharles Borkhuis\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781609642358\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBlazeVOX [books]\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e102\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eSigned by the author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster.  Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePoetry. There are no illusions in the world of Charles Borkhuis. This is life without eyelids, and what we see is too disquieting for our own good, yet we can't look away. It's like film noir, whose frisson is a bad dream. Borkhuis' work, though, is the zero hour. Sure, we can hit the bullseye at the amusement park, ring the bell. But we're just saps. Let's face it, the real is not for sissies, or tough guys either. As for Borkhuis, his aim is dead on. DEAD RINGER beckons us even when we'd better beg off, until we realize we've been living in his world without our knowing. Borkhuis' poems exude their strange beauty. --Burt Kimmelman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I'm often reminded, while reading Borkhuis' work, of Derrida's portmanteau word\u003cbr\u003e hauntology, a term which embodies the disjunction within being between presence\u003cbr\u003e and absence. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e you can't unfriend us the voices said\u003cbr\u003e we're already your next thought\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e it's true the present\u003cbr\u003e was already a memory \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this darkly introspective poetry, inner and outer, self and other, past and present\u003cbr\u003e bleed together. DEAD RINGER is an unforgettable volume of indelible palimpsests.\u003cbr\u003e --Tom Beckett\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"BlazeVOX [books]","offers":[{"title":"Dead Ringer | Charles Borkhuis | Paperback | 9781609642358 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1757442","offer_id":49329541251224,"sku":"1757442","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81Veo7wVHeL.jpg?v=1782338610","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dead-ringer-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}