{"product_id":"foreign-object-paperback","title":"Foreign Object - 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\u003eSteven Teref\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Teref's hybrid collection \u003ci\u003eForeign Object\u003c\/i\u003e follows in the lineage of his Balkan influences Vasko Popa, Novica Tadic, and Charles Simic. Teref populates his poems, experimental verse play, and translations with a horrific horde of \"nightmarians,\" ranging from the Slavic folkloric monster Baba Yaga to an all-too-real pedophiliac Babysitter. This collection heals yet disturbs as it slowly grows into its cancerous crescendo - the \"foreign object.\" Teref effortlessly switches between lyric and narrative modes through one-line poems, prose poems, and found poems. In Teref's hands, his hometown of Somerville, MA, sheds its current hip veneer to expose its original working class Irish roots mired in alcoholism and domestic violence, so excruciating, that it can exist only through the figurative language of Slavic mythology, Coleridge's Geraldine, and Musil's \u003ci\u003eMan Without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e. Ending this collection are Teref's translations of Serbian poet Novica Tadic - an appropriate homage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Teref is the author of the play \u003ci\u003eThe Authentic Counterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago Dramaworks) and the chapbook \u003ci\u003ePleasure Objects Teaser\u003c\/i\u003e (Essay Press). Steven is the Editorial Advisor for \u003ci\u003eRicochet Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 18, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46123360092357,"sku":"9780942544374","price":29.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/bND3_xu8ZY9780942544374.webp?v=1776999291","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/foreign-object-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}