{"product_id":"diving-at-the-lip-of-karen-poppy-9781957372037","title":"Diving at the Lip of the Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Karen Poppy's much anticipated debut poetry collection, Diving At The Lip Of The Water, is to be published on May 1, 2023 by Beltway Editions. Poppy, a poet and lawyer, has written a book \"that will rough a reader up and then wrap their scrapes in silk,\" according to Francesca Bell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Ferry observes that Karen Poppy \"wields the power of the immortal in each word, each song.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonia Greenfield writes that \" the poems...are wide-ranging...whether they're leaping off from the lines of Whitman or Plath, exploring failures of intimacy, or gathering animals in a menagerie of the symbolic, their untamed characteristics bristling at the book's edges and representative of the speaker's own wild sense of self.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book confronts family systems and societal gender expectations, to reclaim what makes us powerful and whole. It revels in and demonstrates what Judy Grahn calls \"paradox and power\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHence, the diver dives at the lip of the water. What waits for her when she enters? You will find the answer in these luminous, arresting poems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Poppy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1957372036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957372037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beltway Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Karen Poppy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133245714687,"sku":"9781957372037","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a47f346-9b14-4923-b904-65aa6375e0d5.jpg?v=1687484950","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diving-at-the-lip-of-karen-poppy-9781957372037","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}