{"product_id":"real-phonies-and-genuine-fakes-paperback","title":"Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is illusion-a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem--the truth, or \"a diverting flash, \/ a mirror showing everything \/ but itself\"?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicky Beer's latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Parton, and Batman are its instructors. With an energetic eye, she thumbs through our collective history books--and her personal one, too--in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of duplicity and those that are far more insidious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough delicious japery, poems that can be read multiple ways, and allusions ranging from Puccini's operas to Law \u0026amp; Order, Beer troubles the notion of truth. Often, we settle for whatever brand of honesty is convenient for us, or whatever is least likely to spark confrontation--but this, Beer knows, is how we invite others to weigh in on what kind of person we are. This is how we trick ourselves into believing they're right. \"Listen \/ to how quiet it is when I lose the self-doubt played \/ for so long I mistook it for music.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReal Phonies and Genuine Fakes\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to look through the stereoscope: which image is the real one? This one--or this one, just here? With wisdom, humility, and a forthright tenderness, Nicky Beer suggests that we consider both--together, they might contribute to something like truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378357338335,"sku":"9781571315397","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6oZ56xZzEV9781571315397.webp?v=1789254485","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/real-phonies-and-genuine-fakes-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}