{"product_id":"suitor-9781597098588","title":"Suitor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Joshua Rivkin's debut collection \u003cem\u003eSuitor\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound wrestling with desire, history, and the big questions of how we make and perform a self in the world. In conversation with the confessional tradition, \u003cem\u003eSuitor\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a sequence of poems about a mother's boyfriends and lovers, and how these relationships inform the speaker's own understanding about eros and masculinity. At the center of the book is a lyric essay, \"The Haber Problem,\" that moves beyond the self and personal history to retell the story of the scientist Fritz Haber. Later sequences and poems reflect on the past with erotic directness, longing, and lyric intensity. With grace and honesty, the poems of \u003cem\u003eSuitor\u003c\/em\u003e ask what it means to be a suitor in the fullest sense--to follow, to pursue, to chase the inexplicable hunger at the heart of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRivkin, Joshua:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Rivkin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eChalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003eeditor's choice and finalist for 2019 PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. His poems and essays have appeared in the\u003cem\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Slate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Best New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e. A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow in poetry, he has received awards and scholarships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Rivkin lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437078188306,"sku":"9781597098588","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3278b476-e01c-432e-81ae-816e4e0c6a74.jpg?v=1729640566","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/suitor-9781597098588","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}