{"product_id":"curious-conduct","title":"Curious Conduct","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurious are the workings of history and governments, the relations between the sexes, the behavior of animals, the life of objects, the labors of art, and the transformations of the imagination. In exploring these subjects, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poems pursue and develop their own mode of investigation, a way into their subjects whether it be by interrogation, time travel, anthropomorphism or other conducive strategies.  Employing a range of poetic forms and devices including anaphora, acrostic, dramatic monologue, and the prose poem, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's \u003cem\u003eCurious Conduct\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a restless aesthetic alert to the various opportunities that the poetic tradition present to explore experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory's Memory\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevil pulled the string end. \u003cbr\u003eOars break the clouded waters. \u003cbr\u003eObjects retrieved by shape and scent. \u003cbr\u003eMarch step of the unknown soldiers. \u003cbr\u003eElevation for gathering a \"big picture.\" \u003cbr\u003eDitches to bury your troubles in. \u003cbr\u003eTangled webs of the oft-deceivers. \u003cbr\u003eOrifice hiding the weepers' den. \u003cbr\u003eRags for recycling into uniforms. \u003cbr\u003eElephant foot-trails toward extinction. \u003cbr\u003ePearls of unrequited wisdom. \u003cbr\u003eEmpires—see under: follies, broad thumbs. \u003cbr\u003eAttacks on itself from grizzled pundits. \u003cbr\u003eTempests dizzying the inverted kingdoms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418284869,"sku":"1929918518","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/CURIOUSCONDUCT.jpg?v=1784749030","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/curious-conduct","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}