{"product_id":"still-life-with-two-dead","title":"Still Life with Two Dead","description":"\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Still 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\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e In Diane Seuss's new collection, the idea 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\n \u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eWith invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Instead, 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\n\u003cp style=\";text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Rendered 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\/products\/still-life-with-two-dead","provider":"Aafaq Bookstore UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}