{"product_id":"transposium","title":"Transposium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe body is an outpouring \/ of humours, and fluids, and grief. To love is to heave that body against a foreign shore \/ and hope for the best.\u003c\/em\u003e — from ‘You are . . . ERYXIMACHUS’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova’s \u003cem\u003eTransposium\u003c\/em\u003e adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, \u003cem\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/em\u003e slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShameless, witty and hot with curiosity, these poems are preoccupied with the refashioning of gender, logic, language and form. Through relentless cross-examination of Socrates and associates, Yourukova combines reckless affection for the past, and a shimmering spectrum of anxieties around an uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternately intellectual and irreverent, this collection is a playful take on the concept of the dialectic, weaving across text and time and the aching yawn of distance between us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487842640245,"sku":"9781776711000","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781776711000.jpg?v=1786355066","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/transposium","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}