{"product_id":"best-bones-9780822963172","title":"Best Bones","description":"Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Best Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments--mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into \"a mansion steering itself.\" The poems in Best Bones also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth. In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Rose Nordgren\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBest Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays appear widely in national journals such as \u003ci\u003eAGNI, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the recipient of two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Nordgren is currently a doctoral candidate in poetry at the University of Cincinnati.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900891828498,"sku":"9780822963172","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_393409c1-8b65-4cbe-8454-9afe5fe8cf44.jpg?v=1738404120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/best-bones-9780822963172","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}