{"product_id":"lambflesh-caroline-shea-9781950462162","title":"Lambflesh","description":"Caroline Shea's\u003ci\u003eLambflesh\u003c\/i\u003e crackles with stark and magic-stung survival songs, asks 'what bloom or blight \/ will make a home in me, ' asks what balm or gauze or \"scavenged relics\" for trauma, for generational ailments, for pain and its haunted memory seeping through the blood. These poems are dark and potent and myth-heavy; they unbandage the stigma from mental health issues and sing \"as refusal of erasure.\"\u003cp\u003eJenn Givhan, i\u0026gt;Girl with Death Mask  and \u003ci\u003eRosa's Einstein\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unstitch me and wear me as a pelt, a blood-and-guts ball gown,\" writes the speaker of Caroline Shea's \u003ci\u003e Lambflesh, \u003c\/i\u003e an invitation charged with ruthless longing, mixing violence and horror with the intoxicating language of desire. The body depicted in these poems is \"always \/ a negotiation,\" at once a stranger \"Zoo of lung and stubborn tissue\" and a dear familiar friend \"Oh, you old girl \/ you unthanked junk.\" The speaker meditates on these twin feelings of belonging and estrangement-\"when you see the creature \/ wearing your old skin \/\/ you will know her\"-and marvels at the newness of this body in recovery \"What is it-to look \/ in the mirror, turning and turning and think, finally, \/ I could live here, yes-I live here.\" The collection's rich tonal complexity and gorgeous attention to language contribute to its extraordinary rendering of self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Skaja, \u003ci\u003e Brute\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI confess: I am drawn to poems that break me into a tenderness I'd never known. Caroline Shea's Lambflesh does it over and over. Here is a new voice, verdant with longing, humming \"the lovely machinery\" of her body, \"bending towards light.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor Jackson, \u003ci\u003eRoll Deep\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Absurd Man: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caroline Shea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950462161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950462162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Shea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440183619839,"sku":"9781950462162","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93f3892a-526a-4467-99f1-7fbb555eba6c.jpg?v=1777180737","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lambflesh-caroline-shea-9781950462162","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}