{"product_id":"quick-change-artist-9781934695890","title":"Quick Change Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuick Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is a postmodern paean to Whitman's pronouncement, \"I am large, I contain multitudes.\" From her \"Fortieth Birthday Poem,\" through a series of secular psalms, to a \"slanted crown\" of sonnets written during the global pandemic, Wade's speaker in \u003ci\u003eQuick Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e never stops evolving, in content or in form. She traverses physical and social geographies, dropping pins across the overlapping maps of popular culture, politics, lesbian identity, marriage, and middle age. From odes to elegies, lineated free verse to haibun and prose poems, \u003ci\u003eQuick Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is a stylish and subversive collection that wears many hats and strikes many chords.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWade, Julie Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJulie Marie Wade writes and publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid forms. Her most recent and forthcoming collections include The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone for the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, Fisk, by Analogy (CutBank Prose Chapbook Series, 2025), The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 (Harbor Editions, 2025), co-authored with Denise Duhamel, and Other People's Mothers (University Press of Florida, 2025). A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384443470098,"sku":"9781934695890","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f549af0f-5c3d-441b-9fd1-1766c03b6888.jpg?v=1750174236","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quick-change-artist-9781934695890","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}