{"product_id":"still-life-with-two-dead","title":"Still Life with Two Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces―details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish―the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O’Keeffe, and Rothko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that “our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diane Seuss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986414432433,"sku":"9781555978068","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1833\/4129\/files\/9781555978068.jpg?v=1734427789","url":"https:\/\/cd15fe-a1.myshopify.com\/ar\/products\/still-life-with-two-dead","provider":"Aafaq Bookstore UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}