{"product_id":"hydra-medusa-9781643621715","title":"Hydra Medusa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e​A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart coping mechanism, part magical act, \u003ci\u003eHydra Medusa\u003c\/i\u003e was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child—during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise. Encountering the ghosts of Japanese American ancestors, friends, children and bodies of water, it asks: what is the desert but a site where people have died, are dying; are buried, unburied, memorialized, erased. Where they are trying, against and within the energy of it all, to contend with our inherited present—and to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brandon Shimoda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960150364278,"sku":"9781643621715","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ecdb31d0-a953-4273-9c0f-79cdf3b2aa4d.jpg?v=1767799750","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/hydra-medusa-9781643621715","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}