{"product_id":"freak-show-paperback-3","title":"Freak Show - 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\u003eCasey Killingsworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are hardscrabble-stark, but deeply wise.\" Former Oregon poet laureate Paulann Petersen on Casey Killingsworth's previous collection, A nest blew down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are all freaks, the way we dress, the way we conduct ourselves in grocery stores, the way we think about flowers. To everyone else we are inevitably odd and puzzling. In \u003cem\u003eFreak Show\u003c\/em\u003e Casey Killingsworth assembles poems outlining his own freakishness, the odd jobs and shifts that earned him his living, the difficulty trying to relate to other people, even how to love. Here he struggles to find a way to address a stranger on an elevator, to a duck walking in the middle of town, to how a bearded lady might address the world, even how history might work: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo how about this: what if all of history is contained in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome woman you barely know, say an older woman, say \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone who checks your groceries out at the local market, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho worked at Subway every Saturday of her life but caught \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea break when she got hired at the store and then got \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epromoted to manager...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat if all of history was defined in terms of her, everything that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eever was, and is, poured into a vessel the size of the person scanning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour cereal, hanging onto her every rotation around the earth? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"The history of the world for as long as I can remember\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you stitch all these poems together you will discover the shape of a poet just trying to understand something, anything, of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352869355769,"sku":"9781594981302","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dC-ofzGZ9N9781594981302_600d29fa-df29-4bcc-a309-b27337651841.webp?v=1769815778","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/freak-show-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}