{"product_id":"my-great-grandfather-danced-ballet-9781771316675","title":"My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo timelines intersect, weaving an alternate reality of queer ancestors, half-truths, domesticity, and desire in spite of past and present persecution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the queer ancestor you always wondered about had really existed--and could speak to you across all time? When there's only one document to be found in the archive, can our misheard or half-remembered family stories be enough? \u003ci\u003eMy Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet\u003c\/i\u003e is a daring, erotic, and humorous exploration of queer longing and Jewish possibility at the turn of two centuries. In a captivating series of narrative poems, Misha Solomon entwines an alternate memoir of his great-grandfather in pre-Holocaust Romania with a contemporary gay life in Montreal. With profound vision, voice, and craft, Solomon sets a new and powerful precedent for speculative poetic histories, allowing intimacy to find a way through memories real, imagined, and desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMisha Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià ke\/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eFull Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e (Turret House Press, 2022) and \u003ci\u003eFLORALS\u003c\/i\u003e (above\/ground press, 2020), and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Poetry, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Riddle Fence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; Change\u003c\/i\u003e. He completed an MA at Concordia University and a BA at Columbia University in New York City. \u003ci\u003eMy Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet\u003c\/i\u003e is his debut full-length collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160340558098,"sku":"9781771316675","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_925206db-c737-4530-b27f-ac883b355b22.jpg?v=1775054198","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-great-grandfather-danced-ballet-9781771316675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}