{"product_id":"instructions-for-my-mothers-funeral-9780822962151","title":"Instructions for My Mother's Funeral","description":"This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also a life in which she begins to see language as a kind of salvation. This section also develops the speaker's first knowledge of sex, primarily in the poems, \\u201cThe Goose Girl\\u201d and \\u201cA Woman Was Raped Here.\\u201d The second section follows the speaker into adolescence and young adulthood, and these poems further explore the sexual violence in the world in which the speaker lives, and how this violence affects her own feelings toward sex and romantic love. In the third section, the book finds love, work, and family, and the poems in this section about motherhood echo back to the first section as the speaker's own parenting is influenced by how difficult it is to love when you know people die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Read\u003c\/b\u003e teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses at Spokane Falls Community College. She has published poems in a variety of journals, most recently in \u003ci\u003eRattle, Mississippi Review, Third Wednesday, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBellingham Review.\u003c\/i\u003e Her chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThe Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You, \u003c\/i\u003e was the 2010 winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572277346578,"sku":"9780822962151","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3910991-73ab-4b1f-b5fe-f25ceba7488f.jpg?v=1755858563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/instructions-for-my-mothers-funeral-9780822962151","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}