{"product_id":"the-keeper","title":"The Keeper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003eJoshua Wilkerson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003eJoshua Wilkerson’s book-length prose poem \u003cem\u003eThe Keeper\u003c\/em\u003e centers on a dissolved identity, a life-altering accident, and the itinerant preceding years. A series of (mis-)translations of Fernando Pessoa’s poems—particularly those of his “heteronym” Alberto Caeiro—punctuate the text, which maps infrastructures of disintegration onto questions of selfhood, friendship, and home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productPageHeader__author\"\u003e\"Is this silence or drilling? Joshua Wilkerson’s recombinant, shifting, translations of Pessoa’s heteronym Alberto Caeiro wind and shift, and butt up against, extraction economies and shipping logistics, over instant messenger and on Anki. Like the shifting sign of the sunflower, the poems here drift and double back, widening and closing the gap between languages, as the central impossibility of translation transmutes into the central impossibility of personhood, or as Pessoa writes, the reflective vest. As Caeiro, Pessoa, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro are refracted through Wilkerson’s shifting, lucid forms, the reader is refracted into a waking dream of empty strip malls and freeways. Thanks to Wilkerson, we’re all doing the Pessoa não.\" —Terrence Arjoon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63666003214666,"sku":null,"price":22.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/1786392435-900.png?v=1790259243","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/products\/the-keeper","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}