{"product_id":"death-styles-9781643622309","title":"Death Styles","description":"\u003cb\u003eA record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this follow-up to her award-winning collection, \u003ci\u003eToxicon and Arachne\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely--River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk--McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day. In frank, mesmeric lyrics, \u003ci\u003eDeath Styles\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death's interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, Joyelle McSweeney's published works span poetry, prose, drama, translation, and criticism. Her debut volume \u003ci\u003eThe Red Bird\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series; her verse play \u003ci\u003eDead Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, or the \u003ci\u003eLeaks\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) inaugurated the Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Playwrights; and her most recent double-collection, her co-translation with Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, and Sawako Nakayasu of Yi Sang's Selected Works received numerous recognitions, including the 2021 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work. Her influential volume The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2014) counters conventional ecopoetics by locating aesthetic and political possibility in such signature Anthropocene phenomena as mutation, contagion, contamination, and decay. McSweeney is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her next collection, Death Styles, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606516371730,"sku":"9781643622309","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d4792ac-13f5-4829-979c-2fba680a3142.jpg?v=1732295346","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/death-styles-9781643622309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}