{"product_id":"sad-boy-detective-9781625579508","title":"Sad Boy \/ Detective","description":"Winner of the Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition \u003cbr\u003e From his first appearance on the page, \" we knew he was bound for something unsolvable.\" But a little thing like futility can't stop our hero from holding up a magnifying glass to a world \" so bright it's impossible to understand.\" In this searching, provocative collection of coming-of-age sonnets, the sad boy detective listens close, collects the evidence, and reimagines the strange landscapes of a life, a body, a boy, a self. Through a questioning, fervent lens, Sam Sax's \u003ci\u003esad boy \/ detective\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us how deeply bizarre and at times undecipherable all this existence stuff truly is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSax, Sam:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sam Sax is a 2015 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and Poetry Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers, where he serves as the Editor-in- chief of \u003cem\u003eBat City Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He's a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion \u0026amp; author of the chapbooks A GUIDE TO UNDRESSING YOUR MONSTERS (Button Poetry, 2014), SAD BOY \/ DETECTIVE (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), \u003cem\u003eAll The Rage\u003c\/em\u003e (Sibling Rivalry 2016), \u0026amp; is co- editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Animal Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Hell 2016). His poems are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Magazine, Pleiades, TriQuarterly\u003c\/em\u003e + other journals.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544935371026,"sku":"9781625579508","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6952edf-10b1-4138-a0a5-df41c87d99f3.jpg?v=1731538797","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sad-boy-detective-9781625579508","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}