{"product_id":"good-monster","title":"Good Monster","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGood Monster\u003c\/h1\u003eDiannely Antigua\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003eMay 14 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781556596902\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1556596901\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiannely Antigua's \u003ci\u003eGood Monster\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection \"voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope,\" chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths-a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's \"soft harm\"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When \"God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave,\" language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua's personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67392304709677,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_f3dbcf81-26c9-438e-827d-329f4a56bbab.jpg?v=1787361669","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/good-monster","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}