{"product_id":"painted-blue-with-saltwater-9781945023088","title":"Painted Blue with Saltwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is so refreshing to discover a poet as rapturously rich with magic as Logan February. In \u003cem\u003ePainted Blue with Saltwater\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet swims with sea monsters, becomes a feather, becomes a window, becomes a safe house by the sea. This is the great pleasure of Logan's poetry--whatever lamentable situation the speaker finds himself in, there is always a way to shapeshift back toward the light: \"Because I am \/ void \u0026amp; because I am vast \u0026amp; because \/ I am ocean.\" What welcome gifts, these gorgeous poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaveh Akbar \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaltwater, ghost-filled air, the fires of becoming a young queer man, and the dirt, the dirt of searching for home, for a name, and another name. Logan February's \u003cem\u003ePainted Blue with Saltwater \u003c\/em\u003efeels at once ancient\/ elemental and utterly new\/refusing to order the world in the same or any manner. This collection bends and stretches lyric language to show us how \"a house is a box of doors, \/ of openings, of wounds,\" how the family's house is far from a heaven where \"they have heterosexual sons \u0026amp; \/ perfectly grilled fish.\" Logan February's speaker is both drawn to and skeptical of what this world has given him. He wants \"to talk to shovels \/ and ask them to be gentle.\" He wants to know \"do knives know what they are used for.\" This is a collection that will inhabit your bones and rearrange your sky. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChen Chen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magic in Logan February's \u003cem\u003ePainted Blue with Saltwater \u003c\/em\u003emanifests from a needed eagerness. Sketches of boyhood \u0026amp; body cannot be negotiated without a level of antagonism \u0026amp; February's collection does so beautifully. It's the world that \u003cem\u003ePainted Blue \u003c\/em\u003ecreates--filled with wings \u0026amp; air \u0026amp; ghosts \u0026amp; dust--that transmits the delicate yet heartening sentiment key to the work. February's voice is salient \u0026amp; sweet; carving out much-needed space for young Black queer poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJayy Dodd \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePainted Blue with Saltwater \u003c\/em\u003eis, if nothing else, a self-portrait. It is opening a box of trinkets and knowing who the owner is based on what you find. It is running your finger across a canvas and feeling the thick chunks of paint, imagining exactly how the artist moved their brush. February balances precision and thoughtful curation with a breathtaking transparency, from which we learn that to be vulnerable is to be strong. These poems are stunning. Read this book and then read it again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlivia Gatwood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indolent Enterprises, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525214277906,"sku":"9781945023088","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fbc1052b-6946-41bd-92e0-2539407d8f19.jpg?v=1731208538","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/painted-blue-with-saltwater-9781945023088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}