{"product_id":"boy-9781632431301","title":"Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hybrid book-length poem in which the protagonist grapples with a great loss.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilizes repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss and identity. Moving between sound and image, aggression and subtlety, \u003ci\u003e b o y\u003c\/i\u003e pries open memories that resist understanding but also refuse to be forgotten. Wise peels back layers of mourning, considering how it can be experienced as a personal, inherited, environmental, social, and historical phenomenon. Throughout, the protagonist in\u003ci\u003e b o y \u003c\/i\u003ereenvisions ways to process a great loss, listening closely and searching for words while \"the earth is shaking and the silence pressing down.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConsuelo Wise\u003c\/b\u003e is a Guatemalan-American poet, writer, and visiting scholar at Portland State University in Oregon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50899493028114,"sku":"9781632431301","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ccdfbffa-973e-4dbf-9a0b-f9edd8a84f40.jpg?v=1738358062","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/boy-9781632431301","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}