{"product_id":"toxicon-arachne","title":"Toxicon \u0026 Arachne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The power of McSweeney''s work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant'' Dan Chiasson, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the months leading up to her daughter Arachne''s birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet''s obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of ''toxic sonnets'' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, \u003ci\u003eToxicon \u0026amp; Arachne, \u003c\/i\u003eform a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToxicon \u0026amp; Arachne\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315451863422,"sku":"NW9781472156051","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472156051.jpg?v=1778658351","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/toxicon-arachne","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}