{"product_id":"embouchure-emilia-phillips-9781629222080","title":"Embouchure: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e★\"This poignant and intimate account of discovery hums with pitch-perfect humor and triumphs that hit hard.\" \u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn embouchure is the way in which a wind musician applies their mouth to an instrument's mouthpiece, and \u003cem\u003eEmbouchure\u003c\/em\u003e, Emilia Phillips's fourth poetry collection, sets its mouth, ready to play. Trumpeting a picaresque coming out story, the poems are at turns self-deprecatory and revelatory, exploring sexual fluidity and non-monosexuality. From the speaker's adolescent crushes to her closeted 20s to her eventual acceptance of queerness, her disarming joy--even at her own mistakes--is cut with challenges to toxic masculinity and reckonings with anticipatory anxiety. The tomboy the speaker once was is transfigured into \"a presexual soft butch \/ Medusa\" with a \"beautiful, beautiful \/ body that didn't know yet \/\/ how to contain itself.\" Elsewhere, the speaker evades a Dickinsonian personification of Death, who seems more like an inescapable ex-boyfriend than a welcome bridegroom. Phillips's mock-confessionalism is as brassy as it is vulnerable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emilia Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1629222089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629222080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/19\/2021","brand":"Emilia Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050806243583,"sku":"9781629222080","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8a26700-b3c5-4d76-9947-c975910705f0.jpg?v=1685009357","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/embouchure-emilia-phillips-9781629222080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}