{"product_id":"turn-around-brxght-xyxs-9780998935898","title":"Turn Around BRXGHT XYXS","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn turn around BRXGHT XYXS,  Rosebud Ben-Oni opens by summoning Matarose-her alter-ego \"muse on roller skates\"-a wildly original voice that channels K-pop, hip hop, and the intersectional mestiza soul of the entire borough of Queens to create a sound-driven howling lyric paean-an ecstatic queer broken love-song that's equal parts Bonnie Tyler and bible, Prince and prayer, and 100% pure desire. Ben-Oni's poems conjure fierce feminist magic to create a simultaneous ode and lament of a book that reminds us we are the sum of all the parts of our selves: our roots and contradictory loves, all the things we're born into and out of, the corporeal experiences we only sometimes choose-and she brings it all home with power, humor, grace, and lines like this: \"This is my blood and this \/ my body this time \/ you won't betray me \/ I am your kingdom come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Erika Meitner \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen-Oni, Rosebud:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of 2019 Alice James Award for \u003cem\u003eIf This Is the Age We End Discovery, \u003c\/em\u003e forthcoming in 2021, and the author of TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019); her chapbook \u003cem\u003e20 Atomic Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, and is part of a larger project called \u003cem\u003eThe Atomic Sonnets, \u003c\/em\u003e which she wrote in honor of the Periodic Table's 150th Birthday. She is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. Her work appears in \u003cem\u003ePOETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, Poetry Society of America (PSA), The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, Arts \u0026amp; Letters, North American Review, \u003c\/em\u003e among others. Recently, her poem Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial \u0026amp; Museum in NYC, and published by \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review Online.\u003c\/em\u003e She writes weekly for \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e blog. She has an essay forthcoming in Halimah Marcus's new anthology \u003cem\u003eHORSE GIRLS\u003c\/em\u003e (Harper Perennial, 2021). She's part of the QUEENSBOUND project, founded by KC Trommer, and took part in The Onassis Foundation's ENTER exhibition. She lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops at Catapult, The Speakeasy Project and UCLA Writers' Program online.","brand":"Get Fresh Books Publishing, a Nonprofit Corp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50443366269202,"sku":"9780998935898","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abfb343e-5581-4abd-8d66-571c7b9ae4c8.jpg?v=1729673619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/turn-around-brxght-xyxs-9780998935898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}