{"product_id":"skeletons-paperback-1","title":"Skeletons - 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\u003eDeborah Landau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWitty and glam, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSkeletons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a prismatic collection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewhich \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eshrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExistentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau's dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, \u003ci\u003eSkeletons\u003c\/i\u003e flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. Spring blooms relentlessly while the ambulances siren by. Against the mounting pressure that propels the acrostic \"Skeletons,\" a series of interstitial companion poems titled \"Flesh\" negotiate intimacy and desire. The collection culminates in an ecstatic sequence celebrating the love and connection that persist despite our fraught present moment. Shrugging off her own anxiety and disillusionment with characteristic humor and pitch-perfect cadence, Landau finds levity in pyrotechnic lines, sonic play, and a wholly original language, asking: \"Any way outta this bag of bones?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Landau is the author of four poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eSoft Targets\u003c\/i\u003e--winner of The Believer Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Usable Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrchidelirium\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and a Spanish edition of the collection, \u003ci\u003eLos Usos Del Cuerpo\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. Landau's work appears in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor at New York University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\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 April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350800154873,"sku":"9781556596650","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cHB0bGdJUzlSZEZHUjdLdS9WL0VvQT09_f9adda09-294f-498c-81a9-46756c8afd0d.webp?v=1769790281","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/skeletons-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}