{"product_id":"status-pending-paperback","title":"Status Pending - 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\u003eAdrian Blevins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riotous yet deceptively serious addition to Adrian Blevins' oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eStatus Pending\u003c\/i\u003e exquisitely leverages the lyric to fathom the liminality of human experience. These poems comprise a stenography of our lives as the buffering consciousness between voided states. Blevins straddles various faultlines as a woman who writes and mothers, who emerges from a second divorce as an Appalachian transplant in New England, who sees from midlife the stringent but unspoken socioeconomic strata framing class conflict. If marriage \"was a rope across a twilight abyss (an abscess),\" if aging brings the hateful labels \"OUT OF ORDER \/ \u0026amp; LATE FEE,\" every disappointment uncovers rejuvenating clarity. \"Bereavement status\" engenders both heartbreak and hope, somehow, as \"then you lose your losses.\" Blevins triumphs in her reclamation of the spectacular in the mundane. \"America is a flub. \/\/ A hack. A crime! America, fuck you for making \/\/ despondent bandits of us -- \/ for blinding \u0026amp; hooding \/\/ \u0026amp; chaining \u0026amp; gagging us.\" Even perched on shifting tectonic plates, Blevins wins the last word: \"You don't seem to know it, \/\/ but there are foxes \/ crossing meadows \/\/ out there fast as disco lights. There are \u003ci\u003eloons\u003c\/i\u003e on your lakes.\" Amen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Blevins is the author of three previous full-length collections of poetry--\u003ci\u003eAppalachians Run Amok\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLive from the Homesick Jamboree\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Brass Girl Brouhaha\u003c\/i\u003e--and, with co-editor Karen Salyer McElmurray, \u003ci\u003eWalk Till the Dogs Get Mean\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays by new and emerging Appalachian writers. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.82 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352524800249,"sku":"9781954245723","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eesn3UpgqD9781954245723.webp?v=1769811101","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/status-pending-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}