{"product_id":"9781682262375-coriolis","title":"Coriolis","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Coriolis effect - from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar’s hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its title - describes a force that deflects a mass off course. This concept is at play both formally and psychically in \u003cem\u003eCoriolis\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe Coriolis effect—from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar’s hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its title—describes a force that deflects a mass off course. This concept is at play both formally and psychically in \u003ci\u003eCoriolis\u003c\/i\u003e, recognized in Leila Chatti's Foreword as “a book of wanting, of lack, absence, disintegration, opacity, and yearning. ‘If only I could cut out the part of me shaped like wanting,’ writes Lauren-Abunassar. At times, the thing wanted for is love. Other times: family, certainty, belonging, home, safety, wellness, wholeness, or simply for a thing to be clean. Always, these poems reveal the shape of the want by illuminating its outline.” Perhaps the speaker of these poems wants most of all to be \u003ci\u003eseen\u003c\/i\u003e, despite her reflex to deflect when she discloses a shame or trauma, often by depositing the self-revelation within rapid, teeming strings of thought. Yet as much as this speaker may be an introvert in life—“Every time someone says my name it surprises me”; “Because I am lonely, I am always shying away from the mirror”; “Today I woke up feeling \/ like an already said thing”—many of her utterances are exuberantly uninhibited. “Small trees live inside me,” Lauren-Abunassar admits passingly in one poem. And in another: “When I dream of myself, my mouth \/ blooms many hands. They reach in all \/ shapes and directions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55422206574966,"sku":"9781682262375","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38265693.jpg?v=1763862653","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781682262375-coriolis","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}