{"product_id":"encounters-for-the-living-and-the-dead-paperback","title":"Encounters for the Living and the Dead - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJameela F. Dallis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJameela F. Dallis's \u003ci\u003eEncounters for the Living and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensual journey that sweeps the tangible world and the poet's beloveds into its arms--fiercely, tenderly, joyfully. Invoking ancestors and constructing altars to lost loved ones, this collection offers an oceanic engagement with visual art, filtering experience through desire and texture, the artist's canvas, and marine life (especially the bivalve and culinary delight, the oyster). In Dallis's hands, the ekphrastic poem awakes and becomes a living, breathing experience, the attentive act of art gazing on other art splitting open language with a glistening, iridescent shine. In the siren-like, crooning words of the poet: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou: thorny oyster tell me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etell me you want my grit--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom ocean unfathomed deep indigo, silk and saline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etell me I haven't come in vain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etell me I've made you hot, angry, agitated and left you wanting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewanting to be whole once more\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859701653701,"sku":"9798988137887","price":27.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/sWR7XQrhKD9798988137887.webp?v=1771532367","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/encounters-for-the-living-and-the-dead-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}