{"product_id":"swelling-dark-the-antiheros-journey-9781069399403","title":"Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSwelling Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, Indira Devos lifts the covers and beckons you closer, offering a space at the edge of the pillow where the softest confessions are made. With a voice that is by turns wry, prayerful, painfully earnest, and delightfully self-skeptical, this debut collection drifts like midnight melancholy, with imagery that glows even in half-light. These poems slip between lullabies and warnings, tenderness and shadow, inviting the reader to rest in the in-between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured in sections named for the unruly children of Nyx, goddess of night, the collection becomes a descent toward whatever truth remains in the uneasy spiritual residue left behind when you've outgrown your own myth. Here, dreams bruise. Grief curls against yearning. Identity flickers like a candle refusing to decide whether to burn or go out. Devos gently traces each page like a bare back, with the quiet devastations and small resurrections that shape a life lived in honest darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey\u003c\/em\u003e is a refreshingly, and hauntingly, honest debut-one that refuses salvation, yet still reaches for it in the night, palms open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevos, Indira:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Indira (she\/they), also known online as Little Death Poetry, is a Canadian poet and potter, reluctantly working a 9 to 5 in policy development. While her ceramic art is known for playful and vibrant motifs, her poetry paints in darker themes, with grief, yearning, and nostalgia. A millennial emo through and through, their casual and melancholy prose is ripe with references, dripping with brain rot.","brand":"Little Death Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967014797586,"sku":"9781069399403","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_986df832-a541-4180-a674-7ebdfc7fe37d.jpg?v=1768920168","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/swelling-dark-the-antiheros-journey-9781069399403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}