{"product_id":"emotion-industry-9798985008920","title":"Emotion Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracy Dimond's debut collection, EMOTION INDUSTRY, leverages pop culture obsession, communication theory, and humor to interrogate the absurdity of controlling feminine rage while living with an undiagnosed chronic illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tracy Dimond's poems come from the place where 'it girl' and riot grrrl meet. They are smart, introspective, funny, and unsettling all at once-both wry observations and wails into the mic from a brilliant feminist voice that takes poetry, pop culture, and affect as seriously as they deserve to be taken.\" - Dr. Tonee Mae Moll, author of You Cannot Save Here and Out of Step: A Memoir, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Non\/Fiction Collection Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's the sarcastic micro-feminisms and anti-capitalist jabs for me. While reading Emotion Industry, I kind of feel like life is work. Except I'm with my favorite co-worker who is edging me to flee - to see beyond the billboards, find a wildflower to sponsor me, the sun of my expanse. There is a level of calm captured in the absolute of suffering, where a recovering animal discovers its cage. I imagine that world would be as precise as the voice in this one. Somehow, Tracy captures the immeasurable heartbreak in apathy and lands it in our body. - Amanda McCormick, Creator of THE HOUSE Handcrafted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tracy Dimond takes the reader on a journey through living with undiagnosed illness while trying to survive the world in a woman's body-\"so bent over from this leaning in.\" She hints at the discomfort she feels in her own skin: \"thinking about the body- \/ the reign of terror over every moment captured in \/ store mirrors\" but reminds us \"the privilege of \/ a bag of muscles and bones and fat \/ with a voice box.\" Emotion Industry is filled with sharp images and a dry wit that sticks with the reader. Sagely, Dimond tells us, \"Aging is deciding which system to buy into, \/ but I'm still searching for shooting stars.\" This collection is a shooting star and the one I'm buying into.\" - CourtneyLeBlanc, author of Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthyBook Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Barrelhouse Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50891601838354,"sku":"9798985008920","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3658899e-010b-4780-ab60-ab2641d24695.jpg?v=1738170473","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/emotion-industry-9798985008920","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}