{"product_id":"9781844718092-erec-enide","title":"Erec \u0026 Enide","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from Chretien De Troyes’ twelfth-century Arthurian romance, Erec \u0026amp; Enide moves through a vibrant, rich and playful mix of underhand lyric. A deceptive and light-footed vulnerability unexpectedly folds in on itself to throw up the most serious questions; then resolutely refuses to ‘make sense’ of things.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErec \u0026amp; Enide\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out of contemporary feminist revisions of lyric and epic forms, the poems set up an overtly feminised display which the reader then re-enacts to find meanings which do not ally and a feminism which does not conform to conventional modes of uplift. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from Chretien De Troyes’ twelfth-century Arthurian romance, \u003cem\u003eErec \u0026amp; Enide\u003c\/em\u003e draws on Jack Spicer’s \u003cem\u003eThe Holy Grail\u003c\/em\u003e, the pastoral romanticism of John Clare, the feminist projects of Lisa Robertson and the essays of Kathy Acker as it moves through a vibrant, rich and playful mix of underhand lyric. These modern love poems wear their ideologically saturated state on their sleeve, and are all the more loving for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810258595937,"sku":"9781844718092","price":8.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27183276.jpg?v=1721557545","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781844718092-erec-enide","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}