{"product_id":"vulnerability-index-poems-paperback","title":"Vulnerability Index: Poems - 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\u003eElizabeth Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems from the halls of shelters, courthouses, and soup kitchens\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During Elizabeth Robinson's six years working with chronically unhoused people in Boulder, Colorado, her relationships with the community's most vulnerable deepened--even as they were filtered through a web of paperwork, systems, and strictures. The Vulnerability Index questionnaire is just one such system. Ubiquitous in shelters across America, it is representative of the endless tasks that people living on the street must complete to receive even minor assistance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving between the local court, jail, shelter, and soup kitchen, Robinson's poems capture the strange juxtapositions of the intimate, bureaucratic, and absurd that such spaces demand: a frostbite victim wants to share his state-sponsored recovery room with a friend from the street, a domestic violence survivor must change her name and even her social security number, an unhoused activist joins a vigil for another woman only to discover that she is, mistakenly, the person being mourned. Spare yet richly empathetic, Robinson's verse works to implicate the reader's own vulnerability on every page.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH ROBINSON \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003ePure Descent, \u003c\/i\u003e the National Poetry Series winner, \u003ci\u003eApprehend, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and \u003ci\u003eOn Ghosts, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.96 x 6.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353742196985,"sku":"9780810149205","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/a6SENiHE8s9780810149205.webp?v=1769828458","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/vulnerability-index-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}