{"product_id":"demystifications","title":"Demystifications","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDemystifications\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMiranda Mellis\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780986235542\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSolid Objects\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. DEMYSTIFICATIONS is a circle of keys; a florilegium; a circle of voices engaged in a public conversation whose subject is the transformation of knowledge into a collective organ. Mellis uses aphorism to bring us back to basics--what is the best way to proceed; starting from here? How should we inhabit the present? By excavation; by error; by exaggeration; by gesture; by revolt; by contradiction; by voice; by tone. Fanny Howe and Edward Said; Etel Adnan; Karl Marx and Muriel Rukeyser--Miranda Mellis hosts the living and the dead in a grand conference on the value and practice of wisdom.--Robert Gluck\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith humor and grace; bite and tenderness; these ninety-nine poems structure an archive of a Miranda Mellis mind map. I loved being there with her! 'DEMYSTIFICATIONS is a key ring;' each page a passkey. From \u003cem\u003eOrange Is the New Black\u003c\/em\u003e to Etel Adnan; from Revital and Tuur's \u003cem\u003ealbino goldfish\u003c\/em\u003e via Marx to Blessing Ngobeni with several visits to Walter Benjamin; the good enough mother; and the public school down the block; Mellis expands the visible--not to hide the cracks; but 'to see the fissure in the fix.' She also gives us the possibility of 'a forgiveness cloak'--a one-size-fits-all-garment--to help us see through other minds besides our own in these darkest of times.--Lynn Marie Kirby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Solid Objects","offers":[{"title":"Demystifications | Miranda Mellis | Book | 9780986235542 | New | Poetry 1314074","offer_id":50550555607298,"sku":"1314074","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41cn-lQMrzL.jpg?v=1790469199","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/demystifications","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}