{"product_id":"the-anxiety-workbook-9780822967033","title":"The Anxiety Workbook","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Anxiety Workbook\u003c\/i\u003e explores contemporary anxiety, grief in its multitude of forms, and complicated familial dynamics via the lens of science and history while utilizing the language of therapy. These poems grapple with the ever-evolving collective and individual trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as seek answers and lessons from the natural world. The termination of a pregnancy, a distant father, the untimely death of a friend, our society's obsession with \u003ci\u003eDateline\u003c\/i\u003e and missing white girls, the estivation of the West African lungfish--\u003ci\u003eThe Anxiety Workbook\u003c\/i\u003e covers these topics and much more in poems ranging from the hypernarrative to the highly lyrical, rich in voice and description. \u003cb\u003eEXCERPT FROM \"WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE WISTERIA\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWisteria sinensis\u003c\/i\u003e The purple of early bruise. The slow strangle of climb toward chimney or sky, something we humans cannot or will not see. The grape-clusters of bloom don't last long, though of course you should expect this, the root right in the name: \u003ci\u003ewistful\u003c\/i\u003e. Now flowers shower down like your grief: violet and sudden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Olson \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eTerminal Human Velocity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Mastodon\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Other work appears in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University and tweets about coneys and mastodons as @olsonquest. Her website is www.thedrevlow-olsonshow.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50865493934354,"sku":"9780822967033","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72e38a23-8df2-45c4-9e55-c550d94d346f.jpg?v=1737677114","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-anxiety-workbook-9780822967033","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}