{"product_id":"the-book-of-dirt-9781630450656","title":"The Book of Dirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eVeering from wry surrealism to ebullient slapstick, the poems in Nicole Santalucia's \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Dirt \u003c\/em\u003echronicle outrage, love, and fear, wed to the terrain and culture of southern-central Pennsylvania. In this collection, lesbians crawl out of the grave that America has been digging since its inception; these are timely poems of resistance, celebrating marriage, sobriety, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSantalucia, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nicole Santalucia is the author of THE BOOK OF DIRT (NYQ Books, 2020), BECAUSE I DID NOT DIE (Bordighera Press, 2015), and \u003cem\u003eSpoiled Meat\u003c\/em\u003e (Headmistress Press). She is a recipient of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Prize and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize. Her non- fiction and poetry have appeared in publications such as \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2019, The Cincinnati Review, TINGE, Zócalo Public Square, The Seventh Wave, Gertrude, Flyway: Journal of Writing \u0026amp; Environment, The Rumpus, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Santalucia teaches at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and has taught poetry workshops in the Cumberland County Prison, Shippensburg Public Library, Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs, and nursing homes. She lives in conservative-small-town Pennsylvania with her wife.","brand":"NYQ Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493928112402,"sku":"9781630450656","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_320543f2-5379-4c32-b807-ba419a995b33.jpg?v=1730659106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-dirt-9781630450656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}