{"product_id":"norman-finkelstein-four-episodes-poetry-chapbook","title":"Norman Finkelstein: Four Episodes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePascal Wanderlust, the androgynous, gnostic adventurer whose spiritual quest has been the subject of Norman Finkelstein’s recent poetry, returns in these \u003cem\u003eFour Episodes\u003c\/em\u003e, which continue (and perhaps conclude) this phantasmagoric lyrical saga. Part alchemical romance, part philosophical investigation, part psychic comedy of errors, these surprisingly intimate poems track Pascal at various points in a journey charged with symbolic meaning, Lovecraftian weirdness, and Kafkaesque humor. As Pascal declares, “I have collected \/ all the memories and called them The Solitudes, \/ called them The Nostalgias, called them and \/ called them until I lost my voice…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorman Finkelstein is a poet, critic, editor, and Emeritus Professor at Xavier University. His most recent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebook of poetry is \u003cem\u003eFurther Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e (Dos Madres Press, 2023); his most recent critical work is a volume of selected essays, \u003cem\u003eTo Go Into the Words\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Michigan Press, 2023). He writes and edits the poetry review blog \u003cem\u003eRestless Messengers\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryinreview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"\u003ewww.poetryinreview.com\u003c\/a\u003e). His website is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/normanfinkelsteinpoetry\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"\u003esites.google.com\/site\/normanfinkelsteinpoetry\/\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bodily Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48818225905857,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0807\/8786\/5793\/files\/FinkelsteinFourEpisodesFRONTCOVER_OutlinedText.jpg?v=1733177730","url":"https:\/\/bodilypress.com\/products\/norman-finkelstein-four-episodes-poetry-chapbook","provider":"The Bodily Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}