{"product_id":"body-braille-9781604542608","title":"Body Braille","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody Braille\u003c\/em\u003e by Beth Gylys is a collection that explores the failures and complications of existing in the world as a sentient being. Broken into five sections, four of the first five focus around a particular sense: touch, taste, vision\/sight, and hearing. The book's final section--comprised of a crown of elegiac sonnets--follows a man after he loses his wife as he fights through the initial stages of grief. The collection--bookended by poems of intimacy and death--moves through the senses, reimagining the possibilities and failures of the body, and ending in death\/life after excruciating loss. The collection is one undergirded by loss but also threaded through with resilience, a resilience that expresses itself as humor, as defiance, as longing, and as survival. Ultimately, the collection attempts to gain purchase on our humanity through its exploration of sensual and bodily experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGylys, Beth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A Professor at Georgia State University and award-winning writer, Beth Gylys has published three collections of poetry (Sky Blue Enough to Drink, Spot in the Dark and Bodies that Hum) and two chapbooks (Matchbook and Balloon Heart). Recipient of a fellowship to attend the MacDowell Colony, her work has been featured on the Writers Almanac, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and she has had poetry published in many anthologies and journals including Rattle, Barrow Street, Paris Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Southern Review.","brand":"Iris Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510783840530,"sku":"9781604542608","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_adffe261-2069-4926-b0e8-e6ff440976b5.jpg?v=1730934323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/body-braille-9781604542608","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}