{"product_id":"the-scary-abecedary-9781786958532","title":"The Scary Abecedary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With 26 poems teased from skin and tissue and veiny threads, Brooke MacKenzie's The Scary Abecedary resounds with brutality, fragility, and fear. A startling debut and a lesson for our times.\" -Lee Murray, four-time Bram Stoker Award?-winner and author of Tortured Willows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbecedary [ ey-bee-see-duh-ree ]: The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are so many frightening things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in imposing an alphabetic structure onto them, I am attempting to control and contain them. It is a futile effort to make everything seem less scary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach letter of the alphabet has been assigned a fright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes the poems are scary, sometimes they're gruesome, sometimes subversive, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes deeply personal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the definition of \"scary\" shifts and changes depending upon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe layers of feelings and experiences and moods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat cover our eyes like a film at any given moment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur lenses shift and our pupils dilate and our minds go along for the ride\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there are so many frightening things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they seem to multiply with each passing day?.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill we ever be safe again?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere we ever really safe at all?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curved Quill Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50399436734738,"sku":"9781786958532","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_242fb3a9-a0b5-41f8-bba4-29cd14f41bb8.jpg?v=1729090897","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-scary-abecedary-9781786958532","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}