{"product_id":"saturn-returns-9798986195001","title":"Saturn Returns","description":"\u003cem\u003eSaturn Returns \u003c\/em\u003ea new poetry collection by Charline Tetiyevsky\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt turns heartbreaking and punishingly funny, this latest collection of poems by Charline \"Charlie\" Tetiyevsky explores the astrological concept of the Saturnic return, a heralding of adulthood signaled by the roughly 30-year path that Saturn takes to travel around the sun from someone's date of birth. By setting the collection within the astrological frameworks by which some millennials and their ancestors have found meaning, Tetiyevsky suggests that poetry, like astrology, can at its best work as a cross-generational cipher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length book of poetry from the author of \u003cem\u003eThings to Keep the Living Alive\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSaturn Returns\u003c\/em\u003e is an experimental, occasionally ironic examination of quarter-life love and loss filtered through the hectic, dissociatively digital culture of the nascent space age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout the Book\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaturn Returns\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry, First Edition (January 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e84 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover with color cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e54 poems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures B\u0026amp;W archival photographs of Saturn and its moons by NASA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcerpts The Day The Teenagers on the Train Dressed Like We Did in 4th Grade\u003cp\u003eIt was that hazy see-thru mesh crop top \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith the digital print of the Birth of Venus that aged me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was like, damn, where'd the time go?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember when all of the computers were \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esupposed to shut down, shit, do I wish they \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehad done it, shit, do I wish every last pager \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand bubble-backed Mac had all gone black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the clocks had all turned to blink \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e00:00:00 and:00 and:00 forever \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etil the light made us sick and we turned off \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe boxes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand we threw away the monitors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe piled them high in a landfill with all our \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother open embarrassments, and while we \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecracked a book we exhaled hard and said \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esheesh, we said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshit, that was close, like, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edamn, didn't we almost nearly turn our \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espines into themselves like a nautilus, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike an ouroboros didn't we almost swallow \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour own feet just to spite our mouths?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of poems about the methane horizon and how the expanse of unknowable solitude behind it is peppered with dead stars that persist only in photo-memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of poems for the people, except!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe people who want to jettison themselves into space: why, just to ache? for trees and for their fires while everyone else laughs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euntil it hurts. Sorry, fellas, but I'm not missing out on the fun so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis is a book of poems to be left on the world whose toes burn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto a beautiful ground, whose heads lift to linger longer on this ship whipping through the long-lost sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan those sailing on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efastest fuel culled by man; so, like, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Have a good flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Potato Chip, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488022728978,"sku":"9798986195001","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_303d55d4-f005-4b14-bd5e-1f9f2182dbda.jpg?v=1730463679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/saturn-returns-9798986195001","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}