{"product_id":"every-form-of-ruin-poems-9780822966913","title":"Every Form of Ruin: Poems","description":"A rebuttal to Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Form of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e posits the Erinyes' fury as righteous, understanding Clytemnestra's rageful response to loss, and refusing Iphigenia's relegation to a footnoted sacrifice. A fierce and darkly funny examination of anger, these lyrical poems push back against silencing by playing witness to a world where the experiences of women, nonbinary, and femme-identifying people are too often ignored, their responses dismissed as hysterical. These poems are also investigations into the loneliness of midlife; the search for one's own self when that self has given its life to service. \u003ci\u003eEvery Form of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e counters our culture's erasure of women and resists the categorizations of maiden, mother, crone by blurring those distinctions through the creation of voices that are moved by rage and resistance. \u003cb\u003eBLACK THUMB\u003c\/b\u003e The dogwood was threatening to swallow the back garden's light, so I borrowed a chainsaw and gas. Its last berries a memory of red, the fruit bitter, tiny angry mangos in the mouth of its killer. Nights my son chooses his father to read him into silence, I practice not loving anything. Less like learning than remembering. As a child, I studied how to be a child. I was given a doll to care for but could never remember its name. I left her face down everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErin Adair-Hodges \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLet's All Die Happy\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Recipient of the Allen Tate Prize and the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, her work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS NewsHour, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, Sewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. Born and raised in New Mexico, she now lives with her family in Kansas City, MO and works as a fiction acquisitions editor.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452889731346,"sku":"9780822966913","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa5f81d1-2ef3-45fb-b8bd-035aa6784a12.jpg?v=1729826500","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/every-form-of-ruin-poems-9780822966913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}