{"product_id":"the-berry-takes-the-shape-of-the-bloom-9781772015515","title":"The Berry Takes the Shape of the Bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe berry takes the shape of the bloom\u003c\/em\u003e originated as a gesture towards optimism after loss and pain, difficulty and fear. It began as a linear narrative, offering a window into one trans person's life after they felt contented and secure. But in the end these poems, which capture particular moments in time, may recur in any given present: sometimes what surfaces is anxiety or anger, sometimes love or eagerness. Some poems bear witness; others hold grudges or shake free of them. Together, they entwine around enmeshed experiences of gender, family, trans pregnancy, abuse, fear, and becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore blueberries grow, they grow a bloom that looks like a proto berry. The berry then takes the shape of the bloom that came before it. The berry displaces the bloom that came before it ... My mother bloomed and then I was a wave or a skateboard or a foraging deer. My mother bloomed and I did not displace her in the right way. Did I berry?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eandrea bennett\u003c\/strong\u003e is a nonbinary National Magazine Award-winning writer, editor, and illustrator who lives in Ayjoo mixw (Powell River), BC. Their first book of essays, \u003cem\u003eLike a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood outside the Gender Binary\u003c\/em\u003e (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), was a CBC Books' pick for the top Canadian non-fiction of the year. Their first book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eCanoodlers\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Nightwood in 2014. andrea's poetry and non-fiction has been widely published in magazines and newspapers such as the \u003cem\u003eWalrus\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTyee\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGeist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCV2\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGrain\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eArc\u003c\/em\u003e. With Kim Fu they co-host \u003cem\u003eThe Rough Puffs\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eGreat British Bake Off\u003c\/em\u003e rewatch podcast now entering its third season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393388679442,"sku":"9781772015515","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_626bb1a9-744a-4c31-94cd-4a6ee244b200.jpg?v=1728988455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-berry-takes-the-shape-of-the-bloom-9781772015515","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}