{"product_id":"the-dream-of-reason-paperback","title":"The Dream of Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny George's debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. \u003cem\u003eThe Dream of Reason\u003c\/em\u003e explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya's grotesque bestiary, George's own dreamscape is populated by purring moths, bats that crawl like goblins, and livestock-especially pigs, whose spirit and slaughter inform a central series of portraits. The poems invite moments of stark realism into a spacious, lucid realm just outside of time-finding revelation in stillness, intimacy in violence, and vision in language that lifts from the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"Threshold Gods\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI saw a bat in a dream and then later that week\u003cbr\u003eI saw a real bat, crawling on its elbows\u003cbr\u003eacross the porch like a goblin.\u003cbr\u003eIt was early evening. I want to ask about death.\u003cbr\u003eBut first I want to ask about flying.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny George \u003c\/strong\u003elives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378366251231,"sku":"9781556595196","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/awhGTJrnve9781556595196.webp?v=1789254510","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-dream-of-reason-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}