{"product_id":"ugly-music-9781936919642","title":"Ugly Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER, 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiannely Antigua's debut collection Ugly Music is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss where survival and surrender are blurred. The poems span a traumatic early childhood, a religious adolescence, and later a womanhood that grapples with learning how to create an identity informed by, yet in spite of, those challenges. What follows is an exquisitely vulgar voice, unafraid to draw attention to the distasteful, to speak a truth created by a collage of song and confession, diary and praise. It is an account of observation and dissociation, the danger of simultaneously being inside and outside the experiences that mold a life. Ugly Music emerges as a story of witness, a realization that even the strangest things exist on earth and deserve to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntigua, Diannely:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut poetry collection, UGLY MUSIC (YesYes Books, 2019), was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her poems can be found in \u003cem\u003eWashington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614353756434,"sku":"9781936919642","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35b428d4-6210-49ef-8b03-d54023273e33.jpg?v=1732440618","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ugly-music-9781936919642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}