{"product_id":"wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound","title":"Wound from the Mouth of a Wound","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Bustle Best Book of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn NBC Out Best LGTQ Book to Gift This Holiday Season\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Book Marks Most Anticipated Poetry Collection of Fall\/Winter 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Lambda Most Anticipated LGBTQ Book of December 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of December 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Some girls are not made,\" torrin a. greathouse writes, \"but spring from the dirt.\" Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, \u003ci\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/i\u003e--selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry--challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates \"buckteeth \u0026amp; ulcer.\" She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse's poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. \"I'm still learning not to let a stranger speak \/ me into a funeral.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Concrete and evocative, \u003ci\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse--elegant, vicious, \"a one-girl armageddon\" draped in crushed velvet--teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328295157860,"sku":"9781571315274","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}