{"product_id":"gutter-9781936919482","title":"Gutter","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of being a good squatter is learning to inhabit any space, to find a home in anything. The poems of Gutter, Lauren Brazeal's debut collection, do just this: inhabiting each form given, whether game card pieces, checklists, stolen police evidence, and letters, or redactions, sestinas and sonnets. The story, told from the perspective of a young girl surviving as a squatter on the streets of Los Angeles and based on the author's own experience with homelessness as a teenager, bounces in time and perspective from the not-yet-homeless child, to the panhandling sprite, to the mournful survivor. More than the narrative of a single person, Gutter speaks to the struggles of those who have been cast aside as irrelevant or undesirable by mainstream society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrazeal, Lauren:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lauren Brazeal teaches in Dallas and is the author of two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eZoo for Well-Groomed Eaters\u003c\/em\u003e (Dancing Girl Press, 2016), and \u003cem\u003eexuviae\u003c\/em\u003e (Horse Less Press, 2016). Her first full-length collection is GUTTER (YesYes Books, 2018). In her past, Brazeal has been a homeless gutter-punk, a resident of Ecuador's Amazon jungle, a maid, a surfer chick, and a custom aquarium designer. A graduate of Bennington's MFA program in writing and literature, her work has appeared in journals such as \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Barrelhouse, Forklift, Ohio\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525196386578,"sku":"9781936919482","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f9b64b9-a938-4a3a-9292-c4cd8829e609.jpg?v=1731207322","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gutter-9781936919482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}