{"product_id":"lo-9781609388997","title":"Lo","description":"\u003ci\u003eLo\u003c\/i\u003e maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman--tender, hungry, hopeful--who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, \u003ci\u003e Lo\u003c\/i\u003e explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack--poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book's early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Crowe\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eDear Terror, Dear Splendor\u003c\/i\u003e. She coordinates the MFA program in creative writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724951687442,"sku":"9781609388997","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dd4280b-a647-4f47-973d-6b5d07b65f2b.jpg?v=1734814842","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lo-9781609388997","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}