{"product_id":"9781876756987-valence","title":"Valence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConsidering War through Poetry and Theory\u003cbr\u003eValence: in chemistry, the number of bonds within the elements of an atom; in linguistics, the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate; in psychology, the emotional charge an event or the connection between two people have.\u003cbr\u003eValence. Considering war through poetry and theory is a powerful rage against the brutality and greed of war; against the particular suffering of women in war; against our indifference but more importantly, our sense of powerless in the face of wars most of us neither support nor would ever instigate. Here is a poet of moral conscience in the fine tradition of Adrienne Rich; a poet writing across boundaries; striving with each form to elucidate, illuminate, change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55177955213686,"sku":"9781876756987","price":5.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37651359.jpg?v=1762245579","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781876756987-valence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}