{"product_id":"still-life-with-mother-and-knife-poems-9780807169742","title":"Still Life with Mother and Knife: Poems","description":"In this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and predators to the realities of postpartum depression. \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Mother and Knife\u003c\/i\u003e considers the female body, \"mute and posable,\" as object of both art and violence. Once an artist's model, now a mother, Rathburn knows \"how hard \/ it is to be held in the eyes of another.\" Intimate and fearless, her poems move in interlocking sections between the pleasures and dangers of childhood, between masterpieces of art and magazine centerfolds, and--in a gripping sequence in dialogue with Delacroix's paintings and sketches of Medea--between the twinned ferocities of maternal love and rage. With singular vision and potent poetic form, Rathburn crafts a complex portrait of girlhood and motherhood from which it is impossible to look away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChelsea Rathburn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Shifting Line, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, and \u003ci\u003eA Raft of Grief.\u003c\/i\u003e A native of Miami, Florida, she now lives in the mountains of Georgia with her husband, the poet James Davis May, and their daughter\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725344346386,"sku":"9780807169742","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b6bc0a6-0b0c-45b4-a36b-9056bfecefdc.jpg?v=1734826555","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/still-life-with-mother-and-knife-poems-9780807169742","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}