{"product_id":"my-heresies-9781956046373","title":"My Heresies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBehold \u003ci\u003eMy Heresies\u003c\/i\u003e: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRiven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of \u003ci\u003eMy Heresies\u003c\/i\u003e catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden in subtext, in imagery sometimes abstract and lush, at other times stark and shocking. \u003ci\u003eMy Heresies\u003c\/i\u003e probes the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, and the result is a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlina Stefanescu\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, \u003ci\u003eRibald\u003c\/i\u003e (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and \u003ci\u003eDor\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, \u003ci\u003eEvery Mask I Tried On\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243805606162,"sku":"9781956046373","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80ec2a13-0d61-4046-affd-e14deec3f094.jpg?v=1745872234","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-heresies-9781956046373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}