{"product_id":"shopgirls-marissa-higgins-9780998761091","title":"Shopgirls","description":"Marissa Higgins' \u003ci\u003eShopgirls\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the grotesque with unexpected delight. Higgins' precise syllables and subtle alliteration will make you hungry. Flesh, bone, and expectation, \u003ci\u003eShopgirls\u003c\/i\u003e is unafraid of breaking and lingering in the resulting pain. You are about to witness the work of a highly skilled surgeon.\u003cbr\u003e-Danielle Evennou, author of \u003ci\u003eDifficult Trick\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow does one negotiate self-preservation in the throes of desire? How do you defamiliarize the familiar that you may understand the self better? Early in Marissa Higgins' chapbook, \u003ci\u003eShopgirls, \u003c\/i\u003e the speaker reveals, \"I've learned how to preserve\/ what remains,\" and these poems acutely distill the exchange of power dynamics as enrapture defines its own terms. \"Don't you know\/ what it is to work for love?\" we are asked-and haven't \"My attempts to please\" also been \"slow\" at times, haven't my fingers reached for something just out of reach, haven't I \"[wiggled]\/ like a panicked thing, smaller\/than a deer or God\" in my wantings? With concision-and precision-Higgins refuses to shy away from the body in desire, leaving the reader wanting also to be \"even closer to what is\/ and was pleasure.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Flower Conroy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Awful Suicidal Swans\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShopgirls, \u003c\/i\u003e Marissa Higgins creates a world that explores human insecurity by juxtaposing fashion and science. The \"anatomy\" of her poems \"bulging beneath denim\" \"wound[s] in ways [Higgins] does not know how to heal.\" It is tight poetry that \"takes [you] from behind\" and forces \"bruise[s] to blossom.\" It is an emotionally charged volume that pushes our perceptions about capitalism and our bodies to new levels-a genuine vivisection.\u003cbr\u003e-Jessica Hylton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Scissor Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marissa Higgins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998761095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998761091\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\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d","brand":"Marissa Higgins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522283598079,"sku":"9780998761091","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_695cf826-3e5c-4a0d-93ce-2fd6a1431e64.jpg?v=1700156475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shopgirls-marissa-higgins-9780998761091","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}