{"product_id":"swerve-paperback","title":"Swerve - 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\u003eTracey Knapp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracey Knapp is the author of two poetry collections, Swerve (Pine Row Press, 2026) and Mouth (42 Miles Press, 2015). She has received prizes and scholarships from La Romita School of Art in Terni, Italy, the Tin House Writers' Workshop, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has appeared in the New Ohio Review, The Glacier, SWWIM, ONE ART, Cream City Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and two Pushcart prizes. Originally from New York's Hudson Valley, Tracey lives in the California Bay Area. Find her at traceyknapp.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHESE POEMS ARE REMARKABLE for the way they \"swerve\" from one association to\u003cbr\u003ethe next as they move down the page, their many catalogues lit by a vivid and worldly\u003cbr\u003eimagery. I admire their tone, -both stoic and vulnerable-contemporary, ironic, \u003cbr\u003efeminine, their wry humor never too far from the surface. -Dorianne Laux \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSQUASHING ALL NOTIONS OF POETRY as erudite, infallible, and beauteous, the\u003cbr\u003epoems in Swerve deliver hilarious, heartbreaking eff-ups on every page. Think actual\u003cbr\u003epeople, actually farting. Tracey Knapp's deadpan, earnest delivery and lack of\u003cbr\u003epretension beckons us inside an unfurnished apartment, where we're pushed off the\u003cbr\u003ecliff of an unlived memory into a unfamiliar carpet of humanness. That recollectionreconnection, \u003cbr\u003eKnapp seems to say, is why we're drawn to art, and where we are\u003cbr\u003eactually connected. And that where is awkward af. \"Don't believe that no one else\u003cbr\u003ecares if you're okay. You're totally wrong,\" Knapp writes. And I usually am, but in\u003cbr\u003eTracey Knapp's hands, I don't wanna be right. -Jennifer L. Knox \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIF YOU ARE A FAN OF MOUTH, Tracey Knapp's first book, you will be pleased that the\u003cbr\u003econversational, associative, tragi-comic, mordant, often self-mocking and flippant\u003cbr\u003evoice of that collection returns in Swerve. But darker. But at the cusp of not being\u003cbr\u003efunny at all. We are in the confessional; we are down in a hole. \"There is some \/\u003cbr\u003ecommon urge to say whatever you don't have \/ anyone to tell except these strangers,\"\u003cbr\u003ewrites Knapp in the first poem, and she tells us: post-Covid malaise, loneliness, \u003cbr\u003edissipation, jury-rigged selfcare. \"Can you name your scars and their reasons,\" asks\u003cbr\u003eKnapp, contemplating her swerve into middle age, her AWOL \"oomph.\" She comes\u003cbr\u003eclean: \"After a certain point you are everything \/ you've ever done to yourself,\" and\u003cbr\u003ethose things, decidedly, ain't that pretty at all. But even if \"[t]he small hours of morning\u003cbr\u003eopen like a sinkhole,\" even if \"you are too old for cigarettes, too old \/ for Santa,\"\u003cbr\u003esomething nascent remains, \"a bulb about to pop through \/ the muck,\" something\u003cbr\u003e\"about to grow\" that is viable and \"goddamn beautiful.\" -John Hoppenthaler\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48330585211129,"sku":"9781963110241","price":20.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RZHuNrHmNK9781963110241.webp?v=1777380766","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/swerve-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}