{"product_id":"nicolette-stasko-under-rats","title":"Nicolette Stasko, under rats","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicolette Stasko’s sixth volume of poetry again confirms Francis Ponge’s statement that ‘Any [wo]man in [her] own garden can touch all the finished potentials of this world’ (\u003cem\u003eTaking the Side of Things\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eunder rats\u003c\/em\u003e is a humorous and sometimes surreal look at the natural world: a menagerie full of rats and bats but also mice, hummingbirds, wrens, magpies, wasps, spiders, deer, the skins of squirrel and fox, a negated Cheshire Cat and finally, a magical nautilus that is also a poet. Stasko is well known for her powers of observation, her painterly eye, and it’s the act of observation that’s most striking about these poems: ‘I observe all this only’, except that observation is never \u003cem\u003eonly \u003c\/em\u003eobservation—a notion that is tacitly acknowledged and explored here. \u003cem\u003eunder rats\u003c\/em\u003e is classic Stasko with a surprising twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNicolette Stasko has published five collections of poetry including an earlier one in the\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003efirst series of Vagabond Press’ Rare Objects. Her most recent \u003cem\u003eGlass Cathedrals: New and Selected\u003c\/em\u003e was with SALT. Nicolette has also published a book of fiction and one of non-fiction—the best-selling \u003cem\u003eOyster\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently working on three books and lives in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":241009605,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/stasko.jpg?v=1347972393","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/es\/products\/nicolette-stasko-under-rats","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}