{"product_id":"three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinations","title":"three six five: prompts, acts, divinations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough there are 365 exercises for writing in this book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethree six five\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a \"how-to\" book of questions rather than answers, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an ars poetica of expanding possibility. Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Raymond Queneau's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eExercises in Style\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Lucy Ives here offers encouragement, candor and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders and challenges of writing life. These prompts―in alchemical combinations with drawings by Nick Mauss―offer ways to become a (better) writer through observation, reorientation, inquiry, play and engagement with the world and its inhabitants. They invite the writer to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening and by being distracted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eLucy Ives\u003cbr\u003esiglio\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, 416 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781938221378\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIGLIO PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48144767254763,"sku":"9781938221378","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/41GSTGU0yuL._SL1000.jpg?v=1777063927","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinations","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}