{"product_id":"new-life-9781950268719","title":"New Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her latest book, NEW LIFE, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozičevic writes poems that are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all--surprising.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her latest book, NEW LIFE, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozičevic writes, \"For my birthday I want a cake\/revealing the color of my soul.\" Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all--surprising. New Life is a book that is Dantesque in its ability to commune with the dead without becoming fixed in the past. Instead, the poems here have a distinct sense of nonlinear time, where each line feels like an ancient bone discovered, only to be reassembled into a chimera of another self. In this way, Bozičevic continually greets herself as a stranger, reminding us that in some respects every poem is a love poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bozičevic's determination to expose the unsettling truths of her own desire--her own materialism, sexuality, and shame--makes for a collection that is all the more stunning for its willingness to place its author between the crosshairs of her poems.\"--starred review for RISE IN THE FALL, Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. LGBTQ+ Studies. Women's Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Bozičevic\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Zadar, Croatia before coming to Brooklyn, New York. Ana is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePovratak lisca \/ Return of the Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems in Croatian\u003c\/i\u003e (Hrvatsko Drustvo Pisaca\/Croatian Writers Society, 2020); \u003ci\u003eJoy of Missing Out\u003c\/i\u003e (Birds, LLC, 2017); the Lambda Award-winning \u003ci\u003eRise in the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e (Birds, LLC, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eStars of the Night Commute\u003c\/i\u003e (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697967829266,"sku":"9781950268719","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_919eb9b4-c82f-4640-906d-cbdb8fbecd95.jpg?v=1734313272","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-life-9781950268719","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}