{"product_id":"turpentine-headache-paperback","title":"Turpentine Headache - 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\u003eJeffrey Gustavson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens's claim, in his \"Adagia,\" that \"all poetry is experimental poetry\" serves as a tacit framework for \u003ci\u003eTurpentine Headache\u003c\/i\u003e. The book brings together the minimalist and maximalist tendencies that have defined Jeffrey Gustavson's years-long exploration of the lyric possibilities inherent in traversals of what he calls \"the jungle of language.\" In effect, the work investigates the preconditions of utterance as a source for poems, seeking to inhabit \"grammars of existence\" that seem anterior to speech itself, let alone writing. Central to the project is a serendipitous reversal: the possibility that language is not an instrument to be commanded but a force to be surrendered to. His explorations have yielded poems of unexpected refinement, intriguingly eclectic subject-matter, and an almost uncanny naïveté--\"ancient and remote,\" he says, \"like baubles some careworn archetype has outgrown and discarded.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 7.08 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48541642588409,"sku":"9798991833486","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/q0XZQbhqaC9798991833486.webp?v=1781734868","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/turpentine-headache-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}