{"product_id":"lexicon-9781597097178","title":"Lexicon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLexicon\u003c\/em\u003e is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph's award-winning breakthrough, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Barefaced Woman\u003c\/em\u003e. This time around, this self-professed \"barefaced woman\" is setting her sighs\/sights on language and what it does for and with and to her. Joseph loves language, making it her slippery passion in poems about childhood griefs and fashion faux pas, movie musicals and empty airports, \"rules\" for writing and rules for reading. Though Joseph loves language, it doesn't always love her back--but in her wise, readable, and imaginative way, she persists while documenting the minefields of racism and sexism. Joseph finds joy in the most unlikely of places, and in \u003cem\u003eLexicon\u003c\/em\u003e, her adoration for the written word lets us see those places in sharp and evocative relief. All hail this bounty, this \u003cem\u003eLexicon\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph, Allison:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllison Joseph\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is a professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books include \u003cem\u003eMy Father's Kites\u003c\/em\u003e (Steel Toe Books), \u003cem\u003eTrace Particles\u003c\/em\u003e (Backbone Press), \u003cem\u003eLittle Epiphanies\u003c\/em\u003e (NightBallet Press), \u003cem\u003eMercurial\u003c\/em\u003e (Mayapple Press), \u003cem\u003eMortal Rewards\u003c\/em\u003e (White Violet Press), \u003cem\u003eMultitudes\u003c\/em\u003e (Word Poetry), \u003cem\u003eThe Purpose of Hands\u003c\/em\u003e (Glass Lyre Press), \u003cem\u003eDouble Identity\u003c\/em\u003e (Singing Bone Press), \u003cem\u003e Corporal Muse\u003c\/em\u003e (Sibling Rivalry Press), and \u003cem\u003eWhat Once You Loved\u003c\/em\u003e (Barefoot Muse Press). Her most recent full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Barefaced Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Red Hen Press in June 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642791170322,"sku":"9781597097178","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_278f2e17-1d6a-476a-b177-f6698a3a5771.jpg?v=1733071008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lexicon-9781597097178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}