{"product_id":"dark-horse-9781936196661","title":"Dark Horse","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Jane Dark--both the everywoman and the uberwoman--who tries \"to ache more beautifully\" as she suffers the indignities of a husband's infidelity and the \"other wife.\" In a series of stunning prose poems entitled \"Sad Film,\" Kristina Marie Darling sublimely describes the strains of a relationship without \"even a cough to break the silence.\" This inventive writer re-imagines the cultural scripts of heartache and the relationship imperative white honoring the pain and chaos of betrayal as well as the violence for which we are capable. \u003cem\u003eDARK HORSE\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful pastiche, repeating phraseology transforming and deepening its meaning from poem to poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Denise Duhamel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarling, Kristina Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty books of poetry. Her awards include two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and multiple residencies at the American Academy in Rome, as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University's Kittredge Fund. Her poems and essays appear in \u003cem\u003eThe Gettysburg Review, Agni, New American Writing, The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mid- American Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog and the Academy of American Poets' website, Poets.org. She is Editor-in-Chief of \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e and Grants Specialist at Black Ocean.","brand":"C\u0026r Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364308685074,"sku":"9781936196661","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1fba9d80-92cc-47a7-8874-4ce8fbb90eb4.jpg?v=1728430900","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-horse-9781936196661","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}