{"product_id":"know-thy-audience","title":"Know Thy Audience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnow Thy Audience\u003c\/em\u003e, Nadia de Vries’s third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor – but not poetry altogether. Speaking-or rather, singing-as a “battered woman” from a working-class neighborhood, De Vries’ aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the author-and not her perpetrator-pulls the strings. Who is the victim in these poems? Can violence be redeemed through esthetic metamorphosis? Or can powerlessness only be transferred as fetish? \u003cem\u003eKnow Thy Audience\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the extent to which a victim can share their wounds, and to what degree an audience can-sensibly, ethically-be burdened with painful knowledge. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357905002836,"sku":"A8B-32226","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/thy.jpg?v=1790813401","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/know-thy-audience","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}