{"product_id":"ten-thousand-selves-9781944585495","title":"Ten Thousand Selves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen Thousand Selves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e explores identity as refracted through family, religion, and place, and situates us in the midst of life's messiness. Drawing on the Tibetan mandala, Mughal memoirs, visual art, online shopping reviews, and a series of text messages from strangers, these poems meditate on gender, power, and motherhood, asking who, in all our multiplicity, we are, and who we might become. The book's far-traveling eye allows Martinez to wade the many rivers we cannot enter more than once\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cem\u003ebecause of change. But change is also the hero of the book as cultures evolve, wounds heal, and our questions reshape our sense of what is possible, what is good.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartinez, Chloe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCorner Shrine, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the 2019 Backbone Press Chapbook Competition. A former Mellon Mays Fellow and Holden Scholar, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eAGNI, Ploughshares, Waxwing, Shenandoah, The Common, Prairie Schooner, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.","brand":"Word Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914397323538,"sku":"9781944585495","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f0b6586e-14dd-4e60-a86b-07928b975083.jpg?v=1738814883","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-thousand-selves-9781944585495","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}