{"product_id":"ossia","title":"OSSIA","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize – language – and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation – none of them equivalence. Translation and re-translation triangulate to form the ghostly third other which defines every relationship of two. Fragmentation, riff, homophony, and analogy sprawl like cuttings from a plant, yielding poems that grow in defiant new directions. This is a book calling to a mother, a teacher, lovers, and ultimately a self whose elements materialise through language, even as the speaker laments what language cannot be or hold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483374002549,"sku":"9781068644627","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781068644627.jpg?v=1786178517","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/ossia","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}