{"product_id":"heirloom-9781800174795","title":"Heirloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Commendation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'How the noise in my head grows and grows, \u003cbr\u003esplinters into phantoms and shapes, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egraceless muses for her cot-mobile.\u003cbr\u003eHow I terror.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how past dysfunction, tyranny and terror structure the shapes of women's lives, and what they hand down to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUneasy inheritances are just the starting point for this debut's remarkable meditations: Should the stories of the past be told? Do they bring redemption or ruin? What are the costs of saying what happened? Beguiling and cathartic, Catherine-Esther Cowie's powerful, formally inventive poems reckon with the past even as they elegise and celebrate her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine-Esther Cowie\u003c\/b\u003e was born in St Lucia to a Tobagonian father and a St Lucian mother. She migrated with her family to Canada and then to the USA. Her poems have been published in \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWest Branch Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSWWIM\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRhino Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and others. She is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384379474194,"sku":"9781800174795","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be44f4f0-d80e-4d1c-a2c8-4d91c51229e0.jpg?v=1750172729","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heirloom-9781800174795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}