{"product_id":"lesbian-dinosaurs-dinosaur-lesbians-9781599542461","title":"Lesbian Dinosaurs \/ Dinosaur Lesbians","description":"What is gay about the weather? Queer about gardening? Feminist about recovery? Lesbian about every piece of art? The poems in \u003cem\u003eLesbian Dinosaurs \/ Dinosaur Lesbians \u003c\/em\u003emove through the natural world, the political moment, literary lineage, and a domestic space, built piece by piece by two wives, to claim their rightful place at the center of poetry itself. Would the mentors and guides and ghosts referenced in these poems-many of them situated at the center of heteropatriarchal midcentury America-be able to clock Nicole Santalucia's radical, full flowering? Maybe. Poetry has always been a complicated paradise, and we are lucky to have a new way in. -Laura Cronk, author of Ghost Hour \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSantalucia, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nicole Santalucia is also the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2018), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, the Arkana Literary Review Editor's Choice Award, and her work has received honorable mentions for the Allen Ginsberg Award, Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest, and the Oscar Wilde Award. She is a Professor of English, the Director of First-Year Writing, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and she serves on the steering committee of the Institute for Social Inclusion at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has led poetry workshops in the Cumberland County Prison, Cumberland County Public Libraries, Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs, nursing homes, the YWCA, LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania's GSA Summits, and she's the founder of The Binghamton Poetry Project (now called The Binghamton Writers Project). Santalucia received the Faculty of the Year Award and the Gender Study Program's Vagina-Warrior Award for fostering inclusiveness at Shippensburg University. She received her M.F.A. from The New School University and her Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She is currently working towards her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Shippensburg University.","brand":"Bordighera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196550770962,"sku":"9781599542461","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce546bfc-087f-4165-9d4f-1cb45277af64.jpg?v=1776153763","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lesbian-dinosaurs-dinosaur-lesbians-9781599542461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}