{"product_id":"routine-bloodwork-colleen-mckee-9781733534543","title":"Routine Bloodwork","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My heart is not a dove. There is nothing\/peaceful about it,\" declares the speaker in \"The Pigeon.\" Accordingly, we see the airports, schedules, and trysts that attend this restlessness. A beautifully-crafted villanelle, \"The Wayside Inn,\" anchors this chapbook and the lovers in a temporary harbor.\u003cbr\u003e-Robin Becker, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Bear Inside Me\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFierce, funny, wise, and particular, Colleen McKee's poems speak of love and loss across cities and bodies where the mind is a dryer set on \"maximum setting,\" and the words of a \"mean, cute, crazy ex...ricochet\" across the heart like a cascade of balls in a pinball machine. Like the most brazen of tightrope walkers, \u003ci\u003eRoutine Bloodwork\u003c\/i\u003e crackles and delights. \u003cbr\u003e-Hugh Behm-Steinberg, author of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Children\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough I have long admired Colleen McKee's prose and verse collections-her poems, memoirs, and stories-this is the book we've been waiting for: a complete, sustained collection of verse from a poet both technically gifted and passionate. It's sexy, witty, unnerving, tragic, and joyous. I love it.\u003cbr\u003e-Lee Foust, author of \u003ci\u003eInbetween\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colleen McKee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733534547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733534543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Colleen McKee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442517291263,"sku":"9781733534543","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26443530-aca0-4ac6-a874-8593f042944e.jpg?v=1777197915","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/routine-bloodwork-colleen-mckee-9781733534543","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}