{"product_id":"the-fastening-paperback","title":"The Fastening - 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\u003eJulie Doxsee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fifth book of poetry by a true poet's poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Julie Doxsee's \u003ci\u003eThe Fastening\u003c\/i\u003e, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Doxsee is Canadian-American and the author of several books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eUndersleep\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat Replaces Us When We Go\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Next Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eObjects for a Fog\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeath\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter three also published by Black Ocean. She is an associate professor of English at Harrisburg University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352123261177,"sku":"9781939568496","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RGRSM3hvR0lwTzZ4N042M0c2OGJvUT09.webp?v=1769805594","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-fastening-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}