{"product_id":"so-stranger-9781638340249","title":"So, Stranger","description":"2021 Button Poetry Short Form Poetry Contest Winner \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTopaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries \u0026amp; three generations.\u003c\/b\u003e In a far-reaching \u0026amp; deftly-woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit \u0026amp; those we owe, stands at the grave of the American dream, \u0026amp; unspools the enormous grace \u0026amp; guilt of being loved. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo, Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a fixed mark between the shifting histories \u0026amp; futures of being a daughter, being an artist, \u0026amp; being an immigrant. If its reader begins as a stranger, they end as part of a lineage: one both of grief \u0026amp; glory, of distance \u0026amp; arrival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinters, Topaz:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTopaz Winters\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder \u0026amp; editor-in chief of the internationally-acclaimed publishing house, literary journal, \u0026amp; arts organization Half Mystic. Her work has been published in \u0026amp; featured by Diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Straits Times, Entropy, the Boston Poetry Slam, the Singapore Writers Festival, \u0026amp; the Academy of American Poets, among others. Topaz studies Creative Writing, Visual Art, Cognitive Science, \u0026amp; Italian at Princeton University. Other books by Topaz include \u003ci\u003ePortrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003epoems for the sound of the sky before thunder.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Button Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525770416402,"sku":"9781638340249","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0fda86c7-c8f4-4ab2-b878-8e5f1bd195f7.jpg?v=1731237207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/so-stranger-9781638340249","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}