{"product_id":"figure-it-out","title":"Figure It Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of \u003cem\u003eslide\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eslip\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003etransfuse\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger”; Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. Wayne dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to readers: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness . . . Reimagine \u003cem\u003edoing the laundry\u003c\/em\u003e as \u003cem\u003ehaving an orgasm\u003c\/em\u003e, and reinterpret \u003cem\u003eorgasm\u003c\/em\u003e as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.” \u003cem\u003eFigure It Out\u003c\/em\u003e is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357494452564,"sku":"A8B-27732","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Scan_20200612_155533.jpg?v=1790812142","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/figure-it-out","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}