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Nick Lantz's poems hurtle through time from ancient theories of physics to the CIA training manual for the practice of torture, from the history of the question mark to the would-be masterpieces left incomplete by the deaths of Leonardo da Vinci, Nikolai Gogol, Bruce Lee, and Jimi Hendrix. 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Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantzs collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the centre of the collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747706773777,"sku":"NGR9780299347949","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53027296837905,"sku":"NIN9780299347949","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/029934794X.jpg?v=1763480474"},{"product_id":"you-beast-book-nick-lantz-9780299311742","title":"You, Beast","description":"With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationship with other animals, from roaches scuttling across the kitchen floor to pigs whose heart valves can replace our own. 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