{"product_id":"salvage-nation","title":"Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003eRodrigo Toscano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003eEmpires decline; the sonnet persists. Here, in the form of salvaged packaging for the most unsparing of critiques. Around the time I was reading Toscano’s incisive sonnets, I encountered, on two separate occasions, vans from Roman Empire Logistics handling Amazon dropoffs. Call it a vibe thing. Or a spin on that old adage about tragedy followed by comedy, even though it’s all volta now. As the poet reminds us, “some sonnets manage to scamper away […] yet others form a sort of defense line.” Consider yourself recruited. —Mónica de la Torre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003eEqually critical of a decomposing empire as it is of literary worlds, \u003cem\u003eSalvage Nation\u003c\/em\u003e recycles (salvages?) the ruins of the sonnet form to think not about the lyric “I” but instead about collectivity: what that might be, and how poetics might help it happen in a late capitalist context—all the while remaining bristlingly “against, againstish, and part of it.” —Kai Ihns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62897618059594,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/1785753871-900.jpg?v=1793216299","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/en\/products\/salvage-nation","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}