{"product_id":"rapture-sjohnna-mccray-9781555977375","title":"Rapture: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause I can never say anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e plainly. Because I always stutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e politely. Because there's always the chatter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e before the kiss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e--from \"In Need of Subtitles\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. \u003ci\u003eRapture\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sjohnna McCray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555977375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt Whitman Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2016 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2016","brand":"Sjohnna McCray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078415937791,"sku":"9781555977375","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06456a4c-0c76-4c7d-9138-e8f497a57d10.jpg?v=1685475382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rapture-sjohnna-mccray-9781555977375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}