{"product_id":"swollening-paperback","title":"Swollening - 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\u003eJason Purcell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, \u003ci\u003eSwollening\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a lifetime of swallowing bad feelings--homophobia in its external and internalized manifestations, heteronormativity, anxiety surrounding desire, aversion to sex--to a body in revolt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In poems that speak using the grammar and logics of sickness, Purcell offers a dizzying collision of word and image that is the language of pain alongside the banality of living on. Beginning by reading his own life and body closely and slowly zooming out to read illness in the world, Purcell comes to ask: how might a sick, queer body forgive itself for a natural reaction to living in a sick world and go on toward hope? In \u003ci\u003eSwollening\u003c\/i\u003e, Purcell coughs up his own poetics of illness, his own aesthetics of pain, to form a tender collection that lands straight in the gut.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eA Place More Hospitable\u003c\/i\u003e (Anstruther Press). \u003ci\u003eSwollening\u003c\/i\u003e is their first full-length collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352099668217,"sku":"9781551528854","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ejJVQml4eTM4cEUzQmxmZGU4b3duUT09.webp?v=1769805552","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/swollening-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}