{"product_id":"vestibular-training-by-alex-keramidas","title":"Vestibular Training by Alex Keramidas","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry by Alex Keramidas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e×\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her poem-zine \u003ci\u003eVestibular Training\u003c\/i\u003e, the Italian-Greek poet Alex Keramidas evokes Grecian scenes that, whether desired or not, become frictional palimpsests of past trauma extending back to disrupted infancy, ballasted by present-day emergence in settings that hold forth the promise of solace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Only the dry fountains are left…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThings “making appearances” in Keramidas’ sempiternal scenography might initially strike one as memorably motionless. And yet blossoms on rocks are \u003ci\u003etouched\u003c\/i\u003e; a marble staircase \u003ci\u003eshifts\u003c\/i\u003e; an archaic flag \u003ci\u003eflaps\u003c\/i\u003e; polka dots \u003ci\u003ecrash\u003c\/i\u003e. And herbs cause quite a stir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, there is an element of idiomatic tag, with a thought traced back and forth through a warren of Greek, Italian, French, and English (Alex’s fourth language) as the poet navigates her tongues and selves in an attempt to turn lingual knots into lanyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is, too, “sage and rosemary on the nearby hill \/ (noisy, noisy herbs).”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe zine’s cover art is by Rowena Hughes. Potentially sentient undulant elasticity. Such unhurried rapidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bored Wolves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47875257532746,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/IMG-0308.webp?v=1712497928","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/vestibular-training-by-alex-keramidas","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}