{"product_id":"star-map-with-action-figures-paperback-1","title":"Star Map with Action Figures - 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\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How does a sentence, \/\/ just like that, become prayer?\" Part parable, part bestiary, part glossary of possible and impossible loves, \u003cem\u003eStar Map with Action Figures, \u003c\/em\u003epoem after poem, provides an answer. From the space between punishment and its promise, Phillips quizzes the thousand churlish faces of desire: two boys making love on a riverbank, a horse named Nightmare, the self \"a needle pushed through \/ the stretched canvas of belief.\" \u003cem\u003eStar Map with Action Figures \u003c\/em\u003ecounters the body's certainty with febrile syntax, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003echallenging the mirror's ability to capture and the lover's willingness to stay. From the \"forest that stands at the exact center of sorrow\" to the cathedral in the speaker's mind, \u003cem\u003eStar Map with Action Figures \u003c\/em\u003echarts the severe and glittering histories of intimacy in flux. A king, a willow, a captain, the sea--all themselves, more, less, unsayable and not--become kinds of heroes, shattering the myth of \"a limit to what any story could hold onto.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351446012153,"sku":"9781943977659","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Y0gyQjAxSVJEYTJ1VVI4c1YwWEVjZz09_5283700b-acc9-48f8-8863-2655c4df6fde.webp?v=1769800315","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/star-map-with-action-figures-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}