{"product_id":"tether-lung-poems-9781680034066","title":"Tether \u0026 Lung: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e Set in rural Michigan, \u003ci\u003etether \u0026amp; lung\u003c\/i\u003e embraces a level of honest sensuality and vulnerability as a heterosexual woman grapples with the needs of her own body while her closeted homosexual husband seeks solace in the animals he loves--his horses--directing the othering he feels within himself towards his wife and children. These poems probe the nature of relationships where emotional extremes are often held in tension and betrayals are not easily healed or resolved. Here, compassion and contempt face one another, asking difficult questions concerning gender, alienation, child-rearing, domestic violence, and divorce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e KIMBERLY ANN PRIEST is the winner of the 2024 Backwaters Prize in Poetry from the University of Nebraska Press for her book \u003ci\u003eWolves in Shells \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of \u003ci\u003eSlaughter the One Bird\u003c\/i\u003e (Sundress Publications), finalist for the 2021 American Best Book Awards. Her chapbooks include \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist Shelters in Place \u003c\/i\u003e(Harbor Editions), \u003ci\u003eParrot Flower\u003c\/i\u003e (Glass Poetry Press) and \u003ci\u003estill life\u003c\/i\u003e (PANK) and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Birmingham Poetry Review \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the second edition of \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e from Bloomsbury Academic. She is an assistant professor of first-year writing at Michigan State University and a volunteer teaching artist for young writers at The Telling Room in Portland, Maine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183087190290,"sku":"9781680034066","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c1ec0344-bfed-4f08-9747-1ef88e12f9bd.jpg?v=1744454389","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tether-lung-poems-9781680034066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}