{"product_id":"our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible-9781960145291","title":"Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiving in landscapes of ruin and ruination, memory and problematic nostalgia, Rebecca Lindenberg's \u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the depths of disruption, decay, and how we go on when the world stops cold.\u003c\/b\u003e Inspired by the speaker's experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, the collection chronicles humanity's daily fight for survival in a world that's bent on destroying itself.Lindenberg centers love, self-acceptance, and intimacy as incomparable balms across great geographical and psychological distances, and asks the reader to do the impossible: hope.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Lindenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2024), \u003ci\u003eThe Logan Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e (Mountain West Poetry Series, 2014), winner of the Utah Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eLove, an Index\u003c\/i\u003e (McSweeney's, 2012). She's the recipient of an Amy Lowell Scholarship for Traveling Poets, a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she also serves as Poetry Editor for the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911456985362,"sku":"9781960145291","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4271d04b-14c2-40d7-bbef-7a16fff9ea8f.jpg?v=1738742683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible-9781960145291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}