{"product_id":"good-grief-the-ground-9781950774845","title":"Good Grief, the Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eMargaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman's body.\u003c\/b\u003eSelected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Ray's \u003ci\u003eGood Grief, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Ground\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer longing, girlhood, escape from an abusive relationship, and the dangers of lending language to a thing. With stunning wit and precision and attention, we see Ray show us what it is to be human: the mess of tenderness and darkness and animosity. Out of the heavy Florida dusk, out of peach juice and late-night swimming pool break-ins and glances across grocery store aisles come these completely captivating poems. In the words of Stephanie Burt: \"Come and see. Take care. Dive in.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Ray grew up in Gainesville, Florida and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. A winner of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and a Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America for her chapbook \u003ci\u003eSuperstitions of the Mid-Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNarrative, The Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches in New Jersey.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625335132434,"sku":"9781950774845","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a24965d2-577d-4ec3-aad7-96c60c16bf10.jpg?v=1732627949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/good-grief-the-ground-9781950774845","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}