{"product_id":"slow-burn-poems-9780810149878","title":"Slow Burn: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePersistent yet flickering, \u003ci\u003eSlow Burn\u003c\/i\u003e unveils a passionate world where love is both impossible and inevitable. Divided into three sections, Evan Wang's debut chapbook traces the confrontation of the self through a cyclical journey of discovery and contradiction, ultimately leading to the choice of allowance: that which is made by the reader. These poems slowly burn first through our own inner silence, then through the thick dark of night, and finally to abstract closure--or lack thereof. They urge and hold us back, begging us to understand how, amid cultural, societal, and political suppression of the self, we kiss the muscled mouths of the world by carrying our bodies through it. \u003ci\u003eSlow Burn\u003c\/i\u003e is a romantic's answer to the search for love, and the strangely comforting realization that the effects of the world mark us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEVAN WANG 王潇 \u003c\/b\u003eis the ninth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, the first male and East Asian individual to hold this title. His work appears in \u003ci\u003ePOETRY Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaxwing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by the White House, the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, and Button Poetry. He was born in Philadelphia and is an undergraduate student at Harvard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52174298972434,"sku":"9780810149878","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_587a4b3d-c41f-41b5-b968-57e7abbe732b.jpg?v=1775558533","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slow-burn-poems-9780810149878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}