{"product_id":"mortar","title":"Mortar","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMortar\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSara Mumolo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781890650902\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOmnidawn\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e80\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, 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\u003eMortar is a text of stealth and volatility, of both explosive and empathic interactions. Just as the title connotes both the short smoothbore gun used by the military to wreak havoc, and the organic material made from cement, sand, lime and water that bonds the bricks of a cityscape together, so, too, do these poems offer both the emergency of society's destructive failings and the sometimes vexed sometimes confoundingly transformative emergence of intimacy between self and other. The fragments that construct these poems court grammar and turn from it, their slipperiness befits both the anxiety and ambivalence--the pleasure and the trap--of attempting to name the known, the knowable, and then to find oneself snared in the constructs that such knowing compels one to inhabit. Uneasy, vigilantly aware of the mire of awareness, these poems wrest from daily encounters of city life a contentious consciousness that can open, albeit explosively to each next instant.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Mortar | Sara Mumolo | Paperback | 9781890650902 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1774648","offer_id":49674963615896,"sku":"1774648","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81m6JusixWL.jpg?v=1786562125","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mortar","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}