{"product_id":"love-the-stranger-9781936919338","title":"Love the Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough the wide-eyed study of beauty and the eerie stations of the erotic, Love the Stranger maps the body in its struggle with desire and absence. Deshpande's poems treat love, kinship, and loss as instruments of our own awakening-tools that can help us encounter our own mysteriousness and touch new ground. As they peer into childhood memory, the end of an affair, dream dismemberments, and even Kim Kardashian, the lyrics in Love the Stranger guide us toward the truths hidden within the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeshpande, Jay:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jay Deshpande is the author of LOVE THE STRANGER (YesYes Books, 2015). He has held residencies at the Saltonstall Arts Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, was a fellowship finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and was selected by Billy Collins for the 2015 Scotti Merrill Memorial Award at the Key West Literary Seminar. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eNarrative\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSixth Finch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAtlas Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHandsome\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpork\u003c\/em\u003e, Prelude, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia. Born in Austin, Texas, he now lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJay also writes about literature, popular culture, and the arts. He has written extensively for \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e; his essays and reviews also appear in \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColdfront\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681684885778,"sku":"9781936919338","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fca6c80e-ab2b-4d77-a4f7-2810e78e49e4.jpg?v=1733956669","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-the-stranger-9781936919338","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}