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4844521Boiled Owlshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/boiled-owls-9781643622576/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4410013/image.jpg?v=638466511916130000223290MXNNightboat BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writers compulsion to write.</strong></p><p><em>Boiled Owls</em> refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness.</p>...4598882Boiled Owls223290https://www.gandhi.com.mx/boiled-owls-9781643622576/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4410013/image.jpg?v=638466511916130000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781643622576_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_<ul><li>Author is the Director of the87press and also a PhD candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.</li><li>Sharma grew up amidst a deeply political family, including an anti-apartheid revolutionary exiled to the UK, a high-ranking politician in Indian Congress, and several generations worth of antiracist organizers.</li><li><em>Boiled Owls</em> was written during Sharmas third attempt at long-term sobriety out of a desire to cast addiction as an everyday issue and not something to be chastised, or, in the case of recovery, lionized. The book thinks within and against addiction narratives.</li><li>Of addiction, Sharma writes: One of the things Ive learned is that addiction is the internalization of capitalism and thus addiction might have something to teach us about a recovery from capitalism and the generation of a fairer and more just society.</li><li>Sharma has received accolades for his books of poetry, including the Caribbean Philosophical Associations Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award 2023.</li></ul>...(*_*)9781643622576_<p><strong>A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writers compulsion to write.</strong></p><p><em>Boiled Owls</em> refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness.</p>...9781643622576_Nightboat Bookslibro_electonico_9781643622576_9781643622576Azad SharmaInglésMéxico2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-febe17a0-247d-4d30-869d-8006a4965101.epub2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00Nightboat Books