{"product_id":"9781787335332","title":"Ecstasy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Dimitrov, Alex \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoetry\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 April 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 112 pages\u003cbr\u003e223 x 144 x 16 | 228g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ecstasy stands out for its brutal examination of the transience of Eros ... Campy and fun' GuardianIn Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his generation is and will be. His unabashed and drivingly musical poems are a call against repression, a rebuke of cultural norms and shame, and a celebration of human authenticity – even if to live under such philosophies is dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ‘Today I Love Being Alive’, we find the poet naked in his kitchen, eating a banana and obsessed with a new lover, declaring ‘I don't care about being remembered. \/ I care about . . . Strong men. Beautiful sentences. Italian leather’; in ‘Poppers’, he stands lightheaded in the bathroom at a bar, ‘thinking of what to do \/ with the rest of my life’, and issuing a warning to himself and us: ‘Poetry \/ is not a self-help book.’Dimitrov is an iconographer of contemporary life, able to pin profound and timeless meaning to a fleeting encounter in the street. Ecstasy also engages with the poet’s Christian upbringing, interrogating faith as both an enemy and valve of catharsis, and a bedfellow of what this book celebrates and courts: profound human ecstasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience ... Raw and honest and deeply personal' New York Times'Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he's here' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours*A most anticipated queer book for Spring 2025 in Electric Literature*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55148061786487,"sku":"9781787335332","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781787335332.jpg?v=1745337527","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781787335332","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}