{"product_id":"notes-from-a-polish-allotment-by-alex-rossiter","title":"Notes from a Polish Allotment by Alex Rossiter","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProse, haiku, and drawings by Alex Rossiter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is an order option on this page to purchase \u003ci\u003eNotes from a Polish Allotment\u003c\/i\u003e plus Alex’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boredwolves.com\/product\/coffeepots\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoffeepots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e zine at a discount. They will ship together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Crossing the allotment patio to wash my brushes at the outdoor sink one morning, I saw to the southeast a plane descending towards Warsaw’s Chopin airport, and remembered how I’d originally made my own way, via tarmac and boulevard, to the neighborhood where we were to live. Surrounded as I was by the enormous idea of Poland, and the slabbed expanses of its capital, I found myself unpacking a need for gardens.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich Alex Rossiter, in \u003ci\u003eNotes from a Polish Allotment\u003c\/i\u003e, proceeds to do across a haibun weave of prose, haiku, and pencil drawings divided between the book’s two parts: the first covering the transplanted artist’s arrival in Warsaw, the second, his discovery of the allotment gardens, a quirky Arcadian wedge of greenery in the heart of the city’s Mokotów district.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttuned to the moods of mud, lancing of light, and shivers of vine across the seasons, and with a healthy interest in the idiosyncrasies of his fellow allotmenteers, Rossiter adopts a typological approach softened by empathic curiosity. Throughout, he seeks to locate himself while reflecting on what it means to be a foreigner sinking hands into local soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bored Wolves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47875221979466,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/IMG-0305.webp?v=1712497212","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-a-polish-allotment-by-alex-rossiter","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}