{"product_id":"wolf-centos-9781936747795","title":"Wolf Centos","description":"\u003ci\u003eWolf Centos\u003c\/i\u003e is comprised of centos, a patchwork form that originated around the 4th century. The form is one which re-configures pre-existing poetic texts into new systems of imagery and ideas. The author is able to place poets in conversation with one another across centuries and across continents. Though the poems are explicitly sutured together by the motif of the wolf, they are also linked by other elements, particularly motifs of language, loss, desire, and transformation. \u003ci\u003eWolf Centos\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately elegiac as it oscillates between transformation and stasis, wildness and domesticity, death and beauty, damage and healing, because ultimately our lives constantly shift between these polarities as well. The ultimate knowledge of the poems is that as we age and experience loss, we must retain our \"wildness\"--the wolf's wilderness--inside us. In this way, the wolf becomes a symbol of a threshold, a transformative space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimone Muench grew up under the influence of Universal Horror films, Boone's Farm, Southern Baptist sermons, and country roads. Recently the recipient of a 2013 NEA Poetry Fellowship and the Fall 2012 Black Lawrence Chapbook Award, some of her other honors include two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, two Vermont Studio Center Fellowships, a 2013 Lewis Faculty Scholar Award, and the PSA's Bright Lights Big Verse Award. In addition to serving as an editor for \u003ci\u003eSharkforum\u003c\/i\u003e and chief faculty advisor for \u003ci\u003eJet Fuel Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she is the author of four full-length collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Air Lost in Breathing \u003c\/i\u003e(Marianne Moore Prize; Helicon Nine, 2000), \u003ci\u003eLampblack \u0026amp; Ash\u003c\/i\u003e (Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Sarabande, 2005), \u003ci\u003eOrange Crush\u003c\/i\u003e (Sarabande, 2010), and \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Address\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX, 2010). She is an Associate Professor at Lewis University in Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476277924114,"sku":"9781936747795","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_634519e9-9045-4ae7-8dde-26af4984b2ce.jpg?v=1730247497","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wolf-centos-9781936747795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}