{"product_id":"rise-and-float-brian-tierney-9781571315199","title":"Rise and Float: Poems","description":"Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney's \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the journey of a poet working--remarkably, miraculously--to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the \"corpse of Frost\" under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father's death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide--all of these compound to \"month after \/ month\" and \"dream \/ after dream\" of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry's cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like \"wrist skin when a grater slips,\" a \"laugh as good as a scream,\" pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The course of \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to \"trying, these days, to believe again \/ in people,\" another concedes that \"defeat \/ sometimes is defeat \/ without purpose.\" Look: the chair is just a chair.\" But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy \"torn open\" by dogs and a suicide, \"two beautiful teenagers are kissing.\" Between screams, something intimate--hope, however difficult it may be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Tierney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2021 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/08\/2022","brand":"Brian Tierney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052282999039,"sku":"9781571315199","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_882850da-7582-495f-89a3-d2cb83b37092.jpg?v=1685017943","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rise-and-float-brian-tierney-9781571315199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}