{"product_id":"aases-death","title":"Aase's Death","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781965154076\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Black Ocean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA linguistically playful and dark book of poems from one of Sweden's most influential and unique poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title \u003ci\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/i\u003e to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it's parodic, it's darkly parodic. A defiantly dark laughter animates the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's also-like most of her writing-a slangy, linguistically playful book. Berg has argued that at the heart of language is \"a kind of happy babbling for the sake of babbling.\" But in \u003ci\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/i\u003eeven \"death\"-we can also see in this failure to comply with rules, a kind of bodily, mimetic rebellion, a kind of insurrectionary depression. This is the state of \u003ci\u003eAase's Death\u003c\/i\u003e: a poetics of failing to use the right words, failing to be good, failing to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859747381381,"sku":"PR433730","price":51.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG7YJMM3UDX.jpg?v=1789108626","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/aases-death","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}