{"product_id":"secure-your-own-mask-paperback","title":"Secure Your Own Mask - 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\u003eShaindel Beers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems balance between the harrowing and the beautiful, hovering at the precipice where women are both horseback riding heroines and battered mothers striving to protect their homes, their children, their identities. These poems are knives thrown with precision, fairytales rendered real through the grit and dirt of the natural world surrounding their imperfect speakers. Social media helps us grieve our losses (\"suicide, suicide, suicide\") and white rabbits lead us down the winding roads of our past mistakes (\"Until \/ a man just became an escape hatch to another man, \/ and all the worlds were eventually the same\"). Transformations abound in this collection, though not by any conventional fairytale means, as Shaindel Beers with her knife-sharp wit and even sharper intuition unveils the nuance within the nuance of any situation. These poems don't just seek escape--they create their own worlds within the escape hatches and (re)build from there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaindel Beers is the author of three full-length poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eThe Children's War and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), both from Salt Publishing, and \u003ci\u003eSecure Your Own Mask\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), from White Pine Press. She teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, where she lives with her son Liam, and serves as Poetry Editor of \u003ci\u003eContrary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449972015353,"sku":"9781945680175","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hbJIoDUvgr9781945680175.webp?v=1772046433","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/secure-your-own-mask-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}