{"product_id":"mortal-trash-poems-9780393354348","title":"Mortal Trash: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePassionate and irreverent, \u003cem\u003eMortal Trash\u003c\/em\u003e transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called \"Over the Bright and Darkened Lands,\" canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. \"Except Thou Ravish Me,\" reimagines John Donne's famous \"Batter my heart, Three-person'd God\" as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears \"a swarm of objects that call without being answered\" hospital crash carts, lawn gnomes, Evian bottles, wind-up Christmas creches, edible panties, cracked mirrors. Whether comic, elegiac, or ironic, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMortal Trash\u003c\/em\u003e remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Scrapbook\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We believe in the one-ton rose\u003cbr\u003e and the displaced toilet equally. Our blues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e assume you understand\u003cbr\u003e not much, and try to be alive, just as we do, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and that it may be helpful to hold the hand\u003cbr\u003e of someone as lost as you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAddonizio, Kim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKim Addonizio\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist \u003cem\u003eTell Me\u003c\/em\u003e and the Paterson Poetry Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eMortal Trash\u003c\/em\u003e. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among other honors, she lives in Oakland, California.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543659254034,"sku":"9780393354348","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1aab7601-3049-42e9-9bfe-a38b7a7550dc.jpg?v=1731512748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mortal-trash-poems-9780393354348","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}