{"product_id":"reader-i-9781956046250","title":"Reader, I","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader, I\u003c\/i\u003e draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e: \"Reader, I married him.\" Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in \u003ci\u003eReader, I \u003c\/i\u003eboth courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker--tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover--finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, \u003ci\u003eReader, I\u003c\/i\u003e traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorey Van Landingham\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eAntidote and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641588551954,"sku":"9781956046250","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2329ea27-dc21-497c-8a0c-a2f942938839.jpg?v=1733025619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reader-i-9781956046250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}