{"product_id":"war-of-the-foxes","title":"War of the Foxes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you.\"-NPR.org\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn reviewing Richard Siken's first book, \u003cem\u003eCrush, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewrote that \"his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse.\" In this long-awaited follow-up to \u003cem\u003eCrush, \u003c\/em\u003e Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of doublings. In this restless, swerving book simple questions--such as, \u003cem\u003eWhy paint a bird?\u003c\/em\u003e--are immediately complicated by concerns of morality, human capacity, and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in its--and our own--invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Slippery, magnetic riffs on the arbitrary divisions made by the human mind in light of the mathematical abstractions that delete them; poetry lovers will want to read.\"--\u003cem\u003eL\u003cstrong\u003eibrary Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[P]oems of passion, examining what it means to love, to be, and to create.\"--\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Siken's stark, startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poems primarily about painting and representation give way to images that become central characters in a sequence of fable-like pieces. Animals, landscapes, objects, and an array of characters serve as sites for big, human questions to play out in distilled form. Siken's sense of line has become more uniform, this steadiness punctuated by moments of cinematic urgency.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWar of the Foxes\u003c\/em\u003e builds upon the lush and frantic magic of Richard Siken's first book, \u003cem\u003eCrush.\u003c\/em\u003e In this second book, Siken takes breathtaking control of the rich, varied material he has chosen...Siken paints and erases--the metaphor of painting with words allows him to leave those traces that mostly go unseen. He is the Trickster. If paint\/then no paint. He does this with astonishing candor and passion.\"--\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Museum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo lovers went to the museum and wandered the rooms.\u003cbr\u003eHe saw a painting and stood in front of it\u003cbr\u003efor too long. It was a few minutes before she\u003cbr\u003erealized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking\u003cbr\u003eat a painting. She stood next to him, looking at his\u003cbr\u003eface and then the face in the painting. What do you\u003cbr\u003esee? she asked. I don't know, he said. He didn't\u003cbr\u003eknow. She was disappointed, then bored. He was\u003cbr\u003elooking at a face and she was looking at her watch.\u003cbr\u003eThis is where everything changed . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Siken\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His first book, \u003cem\u003eCrush\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Yale Younger Poets' prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51837247160551,"sku":"9781556594779","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_f6f99b30-f914-4ecc-b2f2-fc64ae706ef1.jpg?v=1772679748","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/war-of-the-foxes","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}