{"product_id":"crowd-work-sam-furlong","title":"Crowd Work, Sam Furlong","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrowd Work\u003c\/em\u003e is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species. Also, the qualities of pain, and the complexities and contradictions of intimacy. From densely sculpted sonnets to capacious prose forms and ekphrasis, Furlong’s uses of image and tonal variation interweave voyeurism with masochisms and transfiguration. Devotional gestures are amplified from the private to many-voiced conversations, expressly in the sequence ‘Crowd Work’, an unflinching interrogation of the performative side of identity in stand-up’s public setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRadically amatory, this debut performs a body’s wanton poetries. Re-making forms, it renders explicit the means by which ‘Through breaking, we are made’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing.” — Roland Barthes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCrowd\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWork \u003c\/em\u003eelicits an expansive and extraordinary cartography of the body, ‘rendered finally legible’. Here is Barthes’s jouissance, stripped bare to the bone. Furlong’s writing hurts, and is hurt. It takes your delicate face in its hands, presses it seductively against both sides of pain. It tells you where to look. What you see might save you, or break you. It cannot but change you.\" — Nidhi Zak\/Aria Eipe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSam Furlong’s writing has been published in \u003cem\u003eBanshee\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePropel\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. They hold an MA in Poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre, where they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. In 2023, they were selected for Poetry Ireland’s \u003cem\u003eIntroductions Series \u003c\/em\u003eby Tara Bergin. They are the Poetry Editor of Frustrated Writers’ Group, and live in Dublin, where they work in customer service. This is their first book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Macha Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e64 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e210  x 210 mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eISBN \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781068769917\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macha Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52113650843979,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/files\/CrowdWork1_afbc06b8-1c04-4ebe-a0d2-8a709dec6c92.webp?v=1749812773","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/da\/products\/crowd-work-sam-furlong","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}