{"product_id":"figeater-paperback","title":"Figeater - 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\u003eAndrea Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Andrea Carter's powerful \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, \"we follow the\/road, the terrible invention\/\/ of hope\" until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is \"a constant\/ hurricane, grasping, expanding, \/ feeling for a purchase, stability, \/ a place to collapse, fall apart, re-\/accumulate.\" What abundant, soulful, heartwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tomás Q. Morín\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-\"I am a moving violation\" says the speaker-trapped with \"no one to release me from my glass coffin.\" There is emptiness and hunger here-\"No one will know\/\/the hunger of us.\" The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: \"I looked more like\/an adult even at ten, and my body\/\/belonged to my stepfather.\" In a key poem, \"The Welder,\" the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-\"the daughter is [...]\/the conjoining joint, testament\/\/between her mother\/and the man her mother sends\/her daughter to\/\/in order to make him happy.\" \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Donna Spruijt-Metz\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354023870713,"sku":"9781957062259","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NX043Z8cRM9781957062259.webp?v=1769828991","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/figeater-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}