{"product_id":"a-case-for-the-dead-letter-detective-paperback","title":"A Case for the Dead Letter Detective - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLori Brack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her gorgeous metaphor of the Dead Letter Detective, whose job is to show us \"the hole in the side of your life\" that \"spits out things you didn't know were there,\" Lori Brack invites us to recover what we thought forever lost and to see what we've always overlooked. \"The detective is summoned to divine the address,\" she writes, and divine Brack does in these delicate, magical-realist-tinged, and mysterious poems that are simultaneously as clear as a creek over purifying stones. Brack envisions a world bursting with urgent messages we haven't yet learned how to find. She gathers these marvelous lost messages, presses them urgently into our hands, and tells us: \u003ci\u003ehere is what you've been missing. READ. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Bruce Beasley, author of \u003ci\u003eTheophobia, All Soul Parts Returned \u003c\/i\u003e, and other books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Reader, Brack's postage-stamp pieces of prose rupture reality, separating it like fingertips carefully tearing apart an old lick-and-stick sheet of stamps along the perforation lines. In the newly opened spaces in between the tidily torn edges, one's imagination can dance and breathe a bit of fresh air. Each poem is a human heart-with a pulse, par avion-lifting off the page ever so slightly into a realm that is wonderfully impossible. We can float there for a moment, then settle back down to earth with the residual flavor of postage stamp adhesive on our tongues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Lea Redmond, proprietor of The World's Smallest Post Service and author of \u003ci\u003eLetters to My Future Self, Knit the Sky \u003c\/i\u003e, and other books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How much,\" wonders Lori Brack's dead letter detective, \"can go amiss with twenty-six letters and ten digits?\" In her new book, \u003ci\u003eA Case for the Dead Letter Detective \u003c\/i\u003e, Brack's magical language weaves a world in which utterance exists at the knife-edge of loss. There the sky is the shade of a \"flimsy blue aerogramme,\" and her detective becomes a frustrated master \"of other peoples' catalogs of desire.\" With its kinetic, sometimes absurdist language and improbably wonderful throughline, \u003ci\u003eThe Case \u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant found letter, a tour de force. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here \u003c\/i\u003e, and other books\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 38\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730931020083,"sku":"9781952326981","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QuGQ7J_TMh9781952326981_6785c373-1ac3-4355-9183-1727258c892a.webp?v=1763844997","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-case-for-the-dead-letter-detective-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}