{"product_id":"splashed-things-9781968507053","title":"Splashed Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In my new life, I must learn everything again,\" begins \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. \u003c\/b\u003eWith startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places-the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeigh Lucas is the author of \u003ci\u003eLandsickness \u003c\/i\u003e(Tupelo Press, 2024), selected by Chen Chen for the Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. The recipient of residencies from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAcademy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Adroit\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Stanford and Warren Wilson's MFA program and lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160333021458,"sku":"9781968507053","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4282a12-9e57-4e16-9e26-6c275f90de04.jpg?v=1775053745","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/splashed-things-9781968507053","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}