{"product_id":"face-up-a-collection-of-outlaw-poems-9781732312753","title":"Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2021 OLEB BOOKS POETRY PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFace Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume of unmistakable power. Defying social expectations, Suzanne Nielsen writes \"I was born in the mid-fifties with fists for hands because \/ in utero \/ I knew life wasn't fooling around.\" As she explores recurrent themes of physical illness, depression, and addiction, she demonstrates self-awareness gleaned from a life lived fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Nielsen's poems are peopled with wry survivors attending to their lives with purpose and humor. A newly sober friend will \"jingle his medallion in his pocket \/ and mimic a canine sense of direction.\" An adult navigating clinical depression will \"climb into bed wearing . . . street clothes that haven't seen the streets for weeks.\" Relationships form in unexpected ways. Bertha from the Midway \"swore to sit on them, \/ and I swore to watch her back, \/ and we became best friends for those ten days.\" In these poems of tenderness and grit, sorrow is always accompanied by wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oleb Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554507395346,"sku":"9781732312753","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c63a37c9-39b1-4454-b77d-08e9d80623dc.jpg?v=1731718085","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/face-up-a-collection-of-outlaw-poems-9781732312753","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}