{"product_id":"seeing-the-body-poems-9781324020165","title":"Seeing the Body: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn radiant poems--set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics--Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother's death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge, finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma. Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative self-portraits, blurring the body's internal wilderness with landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. \u003cem\u003eSeeing the Body\u003c\/em\u003e dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGriffiths, Rachel Eliza:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRachel Eliza Griffiths\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eLighting the Shadow.\u003c\/em\u003e Her literary and visual work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other publications. She lives in New York City.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651508048146,"sku":"9781324020165","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bf1974cd-d46f-4ab3-9d9e-709d609466d0.jpg?v=1733302126","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/seeing-the-body-poems-9781324020165","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}