{"product_id":"belle-laide-joanne-dominique-dwyer-9781936747559","title":"Belle Laide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A whirling, Dionysian poet. . . . Dwyer negotiates brazenly with huge tracts of the human condition. Her leaping imagination will make you laugh out loud. The poems in \u003ci\u003eBelle Laide\u003c\/i\u003e are a rodeo; hang on to your saddle, cowboy.\"--Tony Hoagland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA man with a shovel in his hand \/ is a sexy thing.\u003cbr\u003eI dare myself to bury my dead, \/ to incline towards Cupid's clouds.\u003cbr\u003eI dare myself to love a man all-out. \/ I'm less afraid of the stray hairs of strangers\u003cbr\u003eleft behind in hotel bathtubs; \/ less afraid of the sounds in the wind.\u003cbr\u003eConversing is sometimes useless, \/ like beavers clawing ice -\u003cbr\u003ehoping to erase back into water.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanne Dominique Dwyer\u003c\/b\u003e earned a BA in creative writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize. Dwyer resides in northern New Mexico where she works as facilitator for the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanne Dominique Dwyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936747553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936747559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Joanne Dominique Dwyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075172790527,"sku":"9781936747559","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee577a85-f41c-4c9f-a8a7-244a54e6935d.jpg?v=1685458022","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/belle-laide-joanne-dominique-dwyer-9781936747559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}