{"product_id":"for-this-and-other-cruelties-9781685970284","title":"For This and Other Cruelties","description":"The shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak's \u003ci\u003eFor This and Other Cruelties\u003c\/i\u003e. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous pleasures, and profane mystifications. Shifting between lyric and prose poems, this collection throws slanted light on the ineffability of our deepest attachments, envisioning a world where mother is \"a creature whose only enemy could be human.\" Kwak brings us face to face with the irreconcilable facts of being mother, mothered, and alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYouna Kwak\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003esur vie\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been published in \u003ci\u003ePo\u0026amp;sie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Traductière\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOversound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ejubilat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAction, Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603109970194,"sku":"9781685970284","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab7a40b6-4ea6-45c7-a497-cf5b43872277.jpg?v=1757425014","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/for-this-and-other-cruelties-9781685970284","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}