{"product_id":"buzzkill-clamshell-9781551529790","title":"Buzzkill Clamshell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In \u003cem\u003eBuzzkill Clamshell\u003c\/em\u003e, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn circumvents the expectations of so-called confessional poetry, offering twisted mythmaking, extreme hyperbole, and lyrical gutter-mouthing that explore themes of sick and disabled queerness, aging, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith poems populated by severed heads, domme swan maidens, horny oracles, and other horrible purveyors of pleasure, \u003cem\u003eBuzzkill Clamshell\u003c\/em\u003e reads as if a leather dyke and a demonic goat had a baby―gleefully embracing the perverse while stomping its way through chronic pain and complex PTSD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready acclaimed for her candid and often kinky verse, Amber Dawn pushes further into trauma-informed eroticism with self-assured irreverence and uncomfortable abjectivity. Beneath her brilliant, carnivalesque imagery lies a prayer―not for the pain to end, but for finding fantastic new ways to cope with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmber Dawn \u003c\/strong\u003eis a writer and creative facilitator living on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, BC). She is the author of several books, including two novels (Lambda Literary Award winner \u003cem\u003eSub Rosa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/em\u003e) and two poetry collections (\u003cem\u003eWhere the words end and my body begins\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e), and the editor of three anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181963804946,"sku":"9781551529790","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67479743-8486-4eb3-b12d-e1012e783166.jpg?v=1744411180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/buzzkill-clamshell-9781551529790","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}