{"product_id":"plainspeak","title":"Plainspeak By Alben, Astrid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlainspeak\u003c\/i\u003e is the highly anticipated second collection by \u003cb\u003eAstrid Alben\u003c\/b\u003e, following her acclaimed debut \u003ci\u003eAi! Ai! Pianissimo\u003c\/i\u003e. In these startling poems, readers will experience Alben’s unorthodox alter-ego-thinking-out-louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz. The poems in Plainspeak deal with place, ancestral ties, solitude, flight, insomnia and the embattled absurdities of daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlben plays with formal boundaries, linguistic identity and the lyrical poetic voice, writing with rhythmic vitality and visual imagination. The poems tell multiple narratives whilst retaining the freedom of abstraction; they are supple and precise, each one an installation evoking different aspects of a particular theme. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlainspeak\u003c\/i\u003e reinvents play and logic, is poignant and humorous, absurd and anguished: a book for and of the times we live in. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57749241889150,"sku":"NW9781916052024","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781916052024.jpg?v=1785063825","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/plainspeak","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}