{"product_id":"compulsive-words-193540282x","title":"Compulsive Words","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 193540282X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ruby, Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. -Aaron Kiely Michael Ruby's new book is experienced as a kind of sotto voce diction, an unrelenting mumbling in the back of the mind, which takes two very different forms: as a graphic representation of voices (words presented in diagrammatic patterns), and as what might be \"transcriptions\" of those diagrams and patterns: \"O paper placement machines\/Blue ladder to family problems\" or \"Somnabulist prows to leaven\/Healthy escarole...\" Or perhaps the diagrams are transcriptions of the other texts: the tense dialectic between these two poles is one of the things that makes this book well worth contemplating. -John M. Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68084809007392,"sku":"NEW193540282X","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81qAQgL-DgL.jpg?v=1793566945","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-gb\/products\/compulsive-words-193540282x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}