{"product_id":"a-winter-triangle-paperback","title":"A Winter Triangle - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcella Durand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSrikanth Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, Selected by Srikanth Reddy \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetic exploration that reimagines form and language through celestial patterns \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by mystery, chaos, order and writing as container, \u003ci\u003eA Winter Triangle \u003c\/i\u003eexplores poetic space and form amid the infinite possibilities of composition and change. Composed of three parts, or \"points,\" like its namesake asterism, this collection is inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's idea of composing poetry from the \"senseless splendor\" of the skies, as well as the designs for automata by twelfth-century inventor and engineer Ismail al-Jazari, and mythological depictions of Sirius, the dog\/wolf star, as both a keeper of order and the agent of chaos and energy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInventing a new poetic form, the \u003ci\u003eseptentrional, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich trembles in its own process of becoming throughout the length of the book, Marcella Durand questions the potential of poetry in the face of artificial intelligence, climate change, and political turbulence in which language is often twisted into the opposite of its own meaning. By counting the seven syllables of the septentrional and opening spaces (caesura) within the poetic line to provide breath and rejuvenation amid exhausting world events, these poems resituate poetry as an alternate space in which to reimagine the given forms of constellations and how we imagine order out of seeming chaos. Thus the question is opened as to whether the poet may ever make sense of the \"senseless splendor\" of the skies, or simply convey them as they are through poetry, holding the infinite within the finite, for a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDurand reads the \"dustlike\" script of the calligraphic galleon, a ship created entirely out of words, as art and struggles to understand the burning dog\/wolf star that stands between law and lawlessness. Is there actual connection between stars in the constellations we have invented? Can we find room for composition within the broken loops of infinity? At the point between old and new, bow and arrow, chaos and order, \u003ci\u003eA Winter Triangle \u003c\/i\u003easks us to face the overwhelm of change--self-inflicted, invented, planetary, and real.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcella Durand (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarcella Durand\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several volumes of poetry including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eTo husband is to tender. \u003c\/i\u003eA recipient of the 2021 C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, she is also the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of \u003ci\u003eOther Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176854896889,"sku":"9781531511708","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tFPNgH3tO-9781531511708.webp?v=1767690845","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-winter-triangle-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}