{"product_id":"brute-poems-paperback","title":"Brute: 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\u003eEmily Skaja\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. \u003ci\u003eBrute\u003c\/i\u003e arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e Brute\u003c\/i\u003e is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. \"What am I supposed to say: I'm \u003ci\u003efree\u003c\/i\u003e?\" the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Skaja\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in rural Illinois and is a graduate of the creative writing MFA program at Purdue University. Her poems have been published in \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFIELD\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.7 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351215685881,"sku":"9781555978358","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/L0R4M053TVRKWUtuRG5jNVFqaXNTZz09.webp?v=1769795704","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/brute-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}