{"product_id":"sugar-fix-paperback-1","title":"Sugar Fix - 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\u003eKory Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDiane Lockward\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subjects of poetry are the same: love and loss, sex and death and grief, family in all its permutations and complications. The differences are in the telling, and Kory Wells is a powerful teller. Her poems are as layered and dense as her grandmother's Red Velvet cake. \u003cem\u003eWhat is it, she asks, that makes us want to swallow \/\/ a story whole? To think \/\/ only one version can be true?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eWith a clear eye, she confronts the paradoxes that gender, race, and heritage present. She writes from a rootedness in her homeland that reaches down generations. She writes as a citizen of this troubled world: \u003cem\u003eI'm unlearning the urge for a sugar fix like I'm unlearning \/\/ my threshold for what is acceptable, terrible, commonplace. \/\/ Tell me I don't have to unlearn hope.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eShe does what we ask of the poet. All that we ask. --Marie Harris, former New Hampshire Poet Laureate\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351397875961,"sku":"9781947896215","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/am0rNEJrcXF2RVA1SHZXVmhxVXBWQT09_01f4a7c4-0d33-4b19-9618-fba9b5338bec.webp?v=1769800213","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sugar-fix-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}