{"product_id":"old-stranger-poems-9781949944648","title":"Old Stranger: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this sixth collection from a beloved American poet, the reader is asked to reflect on the stranger within others--and ourselves. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe speaker in\u003ci\u003e Old Stranger: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and her own mortality. Even as we age, there's a looming space for the mysterious stranger we embody without realizing it. Do we ever truly know who we are? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the book, familiarity takes so many forms, as does the stranger: sometimes the stranger is a loved one, sometimes it is the speaker to themselves, and other times it's one who might seem like a stranger in the poem but turns out to be recognizable in one or more ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are looking back, but at the same time we are so much in the present, there's an in-betweenness of the temporal that is so dreamlike and delicious. The poems are suspended and feel weightless even as their subjects are weighty and, at times, dark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Larkin\u003c\/b\u003e's newest book is \u003cem\u003eOld Stranger, \u003c\/em\u003e her sixth collection of poems, published by Alice James Books in August 2024. She is also the author of five previous collections of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eBlue Hanuman\u003c\/em\u003e (2014); \u003cem\u003eMy Body: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), which received the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle; Lambda Literary Award winner \u003cem\u003eCold River\u003c\/em\u003e (1997); and \u003cem\u003eHousework\u003c\/em\u003e (1975). With Jaime Manrique, Larkin translated \u003cem\u003eSor Juana's Love Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, a bilingual edition of Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz's poetry (1997). Her prose works include \u003cem\u003eIf You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations\u003c\/em\u003e (1998) and\u0026amp; \u003cem\u003eGlad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People\u003c\/em\u003e (1998). Her plays include \u003cem\u003eThe AIDS Passion, The Living, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Wiretap.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarkin co-founded Out \u0026amp; Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion and has co-edited four anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eGay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e. A lifelong teacher, she has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Smith College, among others. Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878027890962,"sku":"9781949944648","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94ca150f-a76f-4c41-a4c6-7b578fe0a311.jpg?v=1738187352","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/old-stranger-poems-9781949944648","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}