{"product_id":"beautiful-zero-poems-paperback","title":"Beautiful Zero: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Willoughby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"These poems get under your skin and stay there.\" --JIM MOORE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems in this award-winning debut collection--selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2015 Lindquist \u0026amp; Vennum Prize for Poetry--are filled with explosive wit and humor like \"a knife you don't see coming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through \u003cem\u003eBeautiful\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eZero\u003c\/em\u003e, embracing forms of culture high and low. Poems about Shark Week and college football sit beside biting critiques of modern war. A series of poems set in a Kaiser Permanente hospital tear into the world of privatized health care while simultaneously charting a story of love in the face of catastrophe. Yet even at her most surreal, Jennifer Willoughby always finds the pulsing heart at the core of the poem. She embraces what she cannot understand about both the world and herself because, after all, \"Nothing is as random as they say it is. \/ You were born the weirdo that you are.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Willoughby's\u003c\/b\u003e poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBeliever, Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others. She has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship, as well as the Academy of American Poets James Wright Award. Willoughby graduated from the University of Minnesota's MFA program and currently works as a freelance advertising copywriter. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she currently lives in Minneapolis, MN. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351101948153,"sku":"9781571314802","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/K1pCYW1xOSs4dlFBRmR6dkltbXFoUT09.webp?v=1769795163","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/beautiful-zero-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}