{"product_id":"empire-of-dreams","title":"Empire of Dreams","description":"Straddling the line between fiction and poetry, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e speaks of Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi's love affair with New York City--her imagined social, political, erotic, and linguistic relationships to the place that has acted as a magnet to Puerto Ricans for so many years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work deals with issues of performance, gender ambiguity, and marginality. It is concerned with the boundaries of language and the possibilities of cross-dressing poetry as commercials, diary, tabloids, gossip, confessions, videos, autobiography, musicals, and manifesto. Characters turn into other characters. Clowns, buffoons, shepherds, lead soldiers, magicians, madmen, witches, fortune-tellers, and artists perform their fantasies in the city streets. An antinovel within the book satirizes the writer's role in the modern age and calls for a revolution of poetry. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal citizens, as the narrator is led through a seeming phantasmagoria of internal and external trials in order to experience the center--of political power, of meaning, of feeling, and of personal identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giannina Braschi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44062784061482,"sku":"9780300057959","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/empire-of-dreams-9880114.jpg?v=1770619518","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/empire-of-dreams","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}