{"product_id":"the-water-between-us-gillian-ebersole-9781733534581","title":"The Water Between Us","description":"Born to break our hearts, these exquisite, dusk-blinding, quotidian and canceresque poems seem to bruise easily, seem to breathe the language of queerness with such tender accusation, seem so fearless in their candid vulnerability. How can one not love a collection that has the following lines in its last two stanzas: \"god is a highchair toddler\/ who laughs when her feet touch the grass\"? or ends one of its poems with this ideal cheekiness: \"The Spanish word for dress\/ is masculine.\" These raspberry colored poems here are so smart and so transformative that they are capable of teaching anyone's tea kettle how to stop sweating entirely.\u003cbr\u003e- Vi Khi Nao, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Water Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate gender, love, Catholicism, and poetry itself with a dancer's poise, with grace, with unblinking courage, and with a candor that makes the Catholic confessional look staged. Rarely have I read a debut poetry collection of such depth, such certainty, such polish. In poem after poem, Gillian Ebersole, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, simply takes the top of my head off. With warmth, openness and a deeply resonant use of the poetic image, she launches here what I'm certain will be a brilliant poetry career. \u003cbr\u003e- Gail Wronsky, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Capsized Boat We Fly \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGillian Ebersole's brilliant debut collection \u003ci\u003eThe Water Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e sings this young poet's dynamic attention to contemporary concerns-to her physical and philosophical worlds inside and out-with an effusive, forthright emotional intelligence and keen handling of language that is skilled as it is playful. Fierce and vulnerable, taut but never rigid, I'm struck by the depth of longing Ebersole offers up with unabashed honesty in matters of body and heart. There's a fearlessness that sears in admitting trepidation, just as the miraculous explodes with each razor sharp examination of the ordinary. If we write to discover who we are, then let us celebrate a poet willing to ask the difficult questions about spirituality, sexuality, and identity with a rigor and poetic muscularity that succeeds in breaking new ground for claiming multitudes in queer identity. These poems are a triumph, both aesthetically and in establishing Ebersole's agency as an artist and citizen.\u003cbr\u003e-Michelle Bitting, author of \u003ci\u003eBroken Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Couple Who Fell to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gillian Ebersole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 173353458X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733534581\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\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Gillian Ebersole","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482572087551,"sku":"9781733534581","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af7f187d-f7f5-47f3-b15b-58c8338ba3c3.jpg?v=1715998929","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-water-between-us-gillian-ebersole-9781733534581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}