{"product_id":"supermodel-paperback-by-david-breskin-1","title":"Supermodel Paperback by David Breskin","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eSoft Skull\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2006-10-12)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e208\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781933368429\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e328.86\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpic poems need epic heroes--divine, fantastic creatures, whose larger than life exploits project the spirit of an age--and now David Breskin has bequeathed our celebrity-obsessed era its very own form-fitting \u003ci\u003eSupermodel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoosely inspired by the story of tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova, the heroine of \u003ci\u003eSupermodel\u003c\/i\u003e is an outsized force of nature: fiercely competitive, intellectually curious, emotionally wounded, resolutely moral, and of course, ravishingly attractive--a globe-trotting innocent who exudes sexuality in every way . . . except the most obvious. As she literally clings to life, her story is revealed in a series of flashbacks which wing us from Middle East to Wild West, desert to tropics, country to city--all vividly described, in potent couplets, as paradises found and lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreskin peppers this dark comedy with unsettling wordplay, shrewd social commentary, and a reporter's acute eye for the facts of life: his virtuosic writing matches the breathless pace and rich complexity of his heroine's travails. But even as Breskin relates his supermodel's tale, his story is matched by strangely salient scrolls of \"found poetry\" culled from web sites. This new feat of literary dovetailing creates a sublime surprise: the first epic poem of the Internet Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Breskin\u003c\/b\u003e first made his name in the 1980s and early ’90s as a freelance journalist, writing for national magazines, most prominently, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, where he was a contributing editor. After publishing a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Breskin turned away from journalism and toward poetry, and by the mid-1990s had begun publishing poems in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParnassus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, among other periodicals. His first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eFresh Kills\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1997, and his second, \u003ci\u003eEscape Velocity\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2004. His next work, \u003ci\u003eSupermodel\u003c\/i\u003e was a one-sentence epic poem, or novel-in-verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreskin has also worked as a record producer for the past thirty-five years and, in addition to Frisell and Cline, has collaborated with leading-edge musicians beginning with John Zorn, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Vernon Reid, and Joey Baron in the ’80s and early ’90s, and continuing with Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Craig Taborn, and Chris Lightcap in the current decade. He lives in San Francisco. 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