{"product_id":"if-birds-gather-your-hair-for-nesting-9780820333687","title":"If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this debut collection, Anna Journey invites the reader into her peculiar, noir universe nourished with sex and mortality. Her poems are haunted by demons, ghosts, and even the living who wander exotic landscapes that appear at once threatening and seductive. In these poems, her sly speaker renames a pink hibiscus on display at Lowe's, \"Lucifer's Panties\"; another character chants, \"I'd fall devil \/ over heels over edge over oleander\"; and one woman writes a letter to the underworld: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDear black bayou, once, by a river \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI bit a man's neck. His scent: the raw \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eteak air husked inside stomachs of six \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRussian nesting dolls--the ones in the attic I pulled \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eapart and open. The ones I \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epulled apart and open like Styrofoam cups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Journey is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston and a poetry editor for \"Gulf Coast.\" Her poems have been published in a number of journals, including \"American Poetry Review,\" \"FIELD,\" and \"Kenyon Review,\" and her essays have appeared in \"Blackbird,\" \"Notes on Contemporary Literature,\" and \"Parnassus.\" In 2006, Journey discovered the unpublished status of Sylvia Plath's early sonnet \"Ennui\" and the influence of Fitzgerald's \"The Great Gatsby\" on it.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914103492882,"sku":"9780820333687","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a195ed7a-950a-4293-a083-f51118a8f362.jpg?v=1738805521","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-birds-gather-your-hair-for-nesting-9780820333687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}