{"product_id":"splashed-things","title":"Splashed Things","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/h1\u003eLeigh Lucas\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003eApril 7 2026\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781968507039\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1968507035\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: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In my new life, I must learn everything again,\" begins \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. \u003c\/b\u003eWith startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places--the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391894683693,"sku":"WHS-0242cf036b0449cc90965bdffe6742d0","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_975041be-e618-4ec2-8e7c-aa61ea178020.jpg?v=1787358315","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/splashed-things","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}