{"product_id":"in-life-there-are-many-things-9781625570543","title":"In Life There Are Many Things","description":"\u003ci\u003eIn Life There Are Many Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of adolescent mental illness after the end of history: \" I have \/ this body-- \/ residue-- and I don't know what \/ left it.\" This chapbook's unmoored speakers seek, alternately, to root themselves more firmly in the world and to exit it entirely. Autobiography and allegory merge to track the inexplicable shapeshifting of the self as it ages, heals, dies, and lives again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Wainger grew up in New York City. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, DIAGRAM, The Journal, The Margins, Poetry, Puerto del Sol\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She's currently an MFA candidate at UMass Amherst, where she teaches composition and creative writing. IN LIFE THERE ARE MANY THINGS is her first chapbook.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50691966894354,"sku":"9781625570543","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee2e3994-3319-4cb6-92e8-9770e47af3c3.jpg?v=1734113410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-life-there-are-many-things-9781625570543","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}