{"product_id":"muzzle-9781956907148","title":"Muzzle","description":"In her debut full collection of poetry, Rivka Clifton, a curator of curiosities, challenges us to consider language as a form of violence. Challenges us to understand what violence can be: memory, both lived and re-lived. Rivka draws on her personal journey with these powerful landscapes, which are part incantation, part exorcism. The poems in \u003cem\u003eMuzzle\u003c\/em\u003e contemplate the relationship between speech and violence and how translating the experience of grief and loss into language can itself be a form of violence-through one's initial experience and living memory. How can everyday speech be violent, how can small violences be a means of communication-these are the questions posed to us by \u003cem\u003eMuzzle\u003c\/em\u003e. As we traverse the poems in this collection, we are invited to consider our own lives, our own relationship with memory, grief, loss, love, and, yes, violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jackleg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185294835986,"sku":"9781956907148","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec2c5e5d-9098-44e1-85e5-644a2efa3ad0.jpg?v=1744583928","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/muzzle-9781956907148","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}