{"product_id":"babys-first-apocalypse-9781952411564","title":"Baby's First Apocalypse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A book full of great poems written by one of the hottest people I know.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mira Gonzalez author of \u003cem\u003eI Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make us \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Beautiful Together\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once in a while, a work comes along that knocks the genre off its feet, and Lisbon's collection is this book. Sharp, rich, and topical, Lisbon has a keen ability to toss handfuls of glitter onto everyday life and all it entails.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mathieu Cailler, award-winning author of fiction, poetry, and children's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBaby's First Apocalypse \u003c\/em\u003eis like a bag of mysteries \u0026amp; secrets dumped onto the floor where Zara Lisbon \u0026amp; you sit crosslegged, picking up a mystery \u0026amp; examining it, \u0026amp; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen the next, \u0026amp; the next, all night, until sunrise lights the windows \u0026amp; your eyes hurt. Sometimes witty \u0026amp; sometimes weepy, the book muses on bruises \u0026amp; Taylor Swift \u0026amp; the many confusions that lie between. It speaks with deceptive nonchalance about searching for intimacies \u0026amp; homes that always seem to twist out of reach. Yet just when it seems the idealized abstractions might get the better of things, Lisbon drops out of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtemplative into direct \u0026amp; embodied realizations like \"when I cough, I sound like my mother.\" The darkest places often get the most sunlight \u0026amp; an identity can be shipped across the country for a price, but \u003cem\u003eBaby's First Apocalypse \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that despite this, we continue, breathing \u0026amp; loving \u0026amp; failing \u0026amp; confiding our mysteries \u0026amp; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecrets with one another. And this continuing is a kind of victory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e-Mathias Svalina, author of \u003cem\u003eWastoid, The Destruction Myth, Creation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Myths, \u003c\/em\u003e and many more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Spartan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495433900306,"sku":"9781952411564","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_932e276c-e6fd-408c-9e83-ed80cc15f3d9.jpg?v=1730684281","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/babys-first-apocalypse-9781952411564","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}