{"product_id":"portal","title":"Portal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language—and even intelligence—is no longer produced only by humans. The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad’s frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeeling back the surfaces of words to reveal their etymologies, Fuad embraces playfulness through her formal range, engaging styles from the tersely lineated to \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003ethe essayistic as she intertwines topics of replication, reproduction, technology, language, history, and biology. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  2024, US\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Chicago University Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780226831534\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tracy Fuad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57556713439563,"sku":null,"price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780226831534-2.jpg?v=1781178296","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/portal","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}