{"product_id":"the-unlikeness-of-things-virginie-poitrasson","title":"The Unlikeness of Things - Virginie Poitrasson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson, translated by Michelle Noteboom \/ 144-page paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 inches, published by Litmus Press \/ ISBN 9781933959726\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Unlikeness of Things roves the territories where the ambiguities of perception brush up against the unspeakable, or even the fantastical. It is an innermost adventure driven by the unsettling encounter with “the other” inside one’s self. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the hauntingly enigmatic work of women artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Dorothea Tanning, The Unlikeness of Things offers a precisely related series of small sensory epiphanies: hallucinations, strange visual impressions and experiences. Boundaries and thresholds are constantly crossed in a back-and-forth between inside and out, the body and things, the self and the world. States of being are described as states of matter, or as intermediate, subliminal, current or pathological states of consciousness. “What overflows here is not my flesh but my very presence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Unlikeness of Things\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Virginie Poitrasson’s The Unlikeness of Things, the terror of depersonalization alternates with the promise of new senses. “My body is no longer a border, I pour into a room.” Every border in this beautiful book is strained until it vibrates. —Ben Lerner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArthur Rimbaud claimed that the way to access poetry was through the “derangement of all the senses.” Virginie Poitrasson’s The Unlikeness of Things is an account of such sensory unruliness and the poetry it can produce. Here, though, it is the body itself, and not just the senses, that becomes deranged, disorganized, dysregulated, and that simultaneously resists language and inspires its supple flights. Translated with agility by Michelle Noteboom, this is a musical, vibrant, anxious, delicate, and devastating book. —Lindsay Turner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProbing the extent of the self and the ways that body and mind intertwine with the rest of life, this extended phenomenological exploration finds uncommon fusions as well as instances of invisibility and complex modes of multiplicity. With all the senses on high alert, Poitrasson composes in acute detail, letting us enter a fusional world in which she affirms, “I am uncontainable in my flexibility.” Michelle Noteboom’s brilliant translation captures all the force of Poitrasson’s unique vision. — Cole Swensen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Litmus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48634060079329,"sku":"9781933959726","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5215\/0960\/files\/Poitrasson-Unlikeness-of-Things.jpg?v=1783555593","url":"https:\/\/50wattsbooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-unlikeness-of-things-virginie-poitrasson","provider":"50 Watts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}