{"product_id":"excisions-9781625570451","title":"Excisions","description":"\u003ci\u003eExcisions\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the feeling-- the problem and the syntax-- of being on a threshold. If you don't know what will happen next, you can't yet say what has happened. These poems arise from states of precise unknowing, desperate imagination, inchoate emotion, encounters with mortality and power when they're closing in but haven't caught you yet. What is choice, given the terms of an ill body, survival in a grotesque empire? Tenderly and acutely, these poems examine the life of before and after: when something is excised from you, it was you, and you are what remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilary Plum is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eStrawberry Fields\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThey Dragged Them Through the Streets\u003c\/em\u003e and the work of nonfiction \u003cem\u003eWatchfires\u003c\/em\u003e, which received the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award. She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522074448146,"sku":"9781625570451","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e68cbfca-16a3-41d0-b592-b6fe54352e8a.jpg?v=1731113395","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/excisions-9781625570451","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}