{"product_id":"salt-ashes-poems-from-the-abyss-9781069499820","title":"Salt \u0026 Ashes: Poems From the Abyss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSalt and Ashes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a searing, poetic reckoning with love, loss, rage, and survival. In this devastatingly intimate collection, Thanh Dinh writes through the shattered glass of diaspora, queerness, and feminine grief-fusing memoir, myth, and lyrical philosophy into a gospel for the brokenhearted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured like a symphony-\u003cstrong\u003eAndante\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eRomanze\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eScherzo\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eFinale\u003c\/strong\u003e-each movement carries the reader deeper into a landscape where kindness can kill, memory becomes a wound, and love is both the altar and the knife. These are not quiet poems. These are the prayers of a girl who never got to be a girl. These are the unsent letters, the hallucinations of Ophelia, the last cigarette of a ghost who was once loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by historical violence and personal betrayals, the speaker refuses closure. Instead, she offers clarity through fire-insisting that tenderness can still bloom in ruins, and that longing, though brutal, is still holy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Ocean Vuong, Sylvia Plath, Trịnh Công Sơn, and anyone who's ever tried to rebuild themselves from smoke, Salt and Ashes is not just a poetry collection. It's a resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDinh, Thanh:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Thanh Dinh is a Vietnamese-Canadian poet and writer. Her work explores grief, diaspora, queerness, political memory, and the sacred violence of survival. Her debut collection, The Smallest God Who Ever Lived, was named a Top New Release on Amazon and praised for its emotional intensity and lyrical boldness. She is the co-founder of Writerly Books, a small press committed to radical, poetic, and diasporic storytelling.Salt and Ashes is her second collection, composed as a symphonic elegy for the dispossessed and the divine.","brand":"Writerly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52077983498514,"sku":"9781069499820","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb74362e-71f9-4abe-b97a-6ac8c8315f4e.jpg?v=1772526915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/salt-ashes-poems-from-the-abyss-9781069499820","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}