{"product_id":"i-used-to-live-here-9780889844841","title":"I Used to Live Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe driving impulse of Amy LeBlanc's new collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eI used to live here\u003c\/em\u003e, is an examination of chronic illness, disability, and autoimmunity. The collection also aims to find moments of magic and ritual within the experience of illness and to find new metaphors for illness and autoimmunity that do not rely on militarization, self-cannibalism, or suicide. LeBlanc thinks deeply about autoimmunity and the poetic representations of the body that self-destructs and that cannot recognize itself? specifically, she asks: What does a body feel like when it doesn't feel like a home? What does it look like when a body self-destructs? How do we write through and about bodily doubt? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy LeBlanc is a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary. Amy's debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eI know something you don't know\u003c\/em\u003e, was published with Gordon Hill Press in March 2020 and was long listed for the ReLit Award and selected as a finalist for the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Her novella, \u003cem\u003eUnlocking\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by the University of Calgary Press in June 2021 and was a finalist for the Trade Fiction Book of the Year through the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Amy's first short story collection \u003cem\u003eHomebodies\u003c\/em\u003e was published in spring 2023 with Great Plains Publications in their Enfield \u0026amp; Wizenty imprint, and her second full-length poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eI used to live here\u003c\/em\u003e, is forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press in spring 2025. Amy's work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eRoom, Arc, Canadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e among others. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry?most recently, \u003cem\u003eUndead Juliet at the Museum, \u003c\/em\u003e which was published with ZED Press in August 2021. Amy is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and a CGS-D Award for her doctoral research into fictional representations of chronic illness and gothic spaces. She is a 2022 Killam Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Porcupine's Quill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453534077202,"sku":"9780889844841","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b82dde4-e811-4acb-a37a-7388e05db035.jpg?v=1751972648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-used-to-live-here-9780889844841","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}