{"product_id":"chamber-after-chamber-paperback-softback-9781625347787","title":"Chamber After Chamber (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625347787","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChamber After Chamber\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSaara Myrene Raappana (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625347787\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e66 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e “With invigorating strength and song, this gorgeous first book shows us that we are animals—hungry, driven, crafty, tender, and violent, we surprise ourselves. Saara Myrene Raappanna transmits to readers the textures of land, lake, and sky: ‘A blizzard switched the ground \/ for clouds and made the county blind,’ begins ‘Elegy with Lake Effect.’ \u003ci\u003eChamber after Chamber\u003c\/i\u003e is alive with thunder, stinging insects, mud, animal blood, and human sweat; the electric influence of Lake Superior is felt throughout. This cunning, graceful speaker elucidates one of life’s most dazzling contradictions: that the heart—'the part that never sleeps’—is at once spirit and flesh, ‘light’ and ‘meat’.”—Emily Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eCompany\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eChamber after Chamber\u003c\/i\u003e is about what fractures, fixes, and refills the hearts of two girls as they grow into women. A loose narrative in three sections, the poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation—both physical and emotional—as adults. From the make-believe apocalypses and cut-and-paste valentines of elementary school to the stadium-seating classrooms and multiplexes of southern China, our speaker tries to leave the shame and dysfunction of her family behind. In China, she begins to see America—and herself—clearly for the first time, and in doing so discovers that both her cousin and her country are inextricably woven into \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e [her body] part  that never sleeps  the blood\u003cbr\u003e and chambered meat  that’s like a rock squeezed\u003cbr\u003e in a fist  rapping its knuckles\u003cbr\u003e on the sweet door  of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeart of Lion, Heart of Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnce upon America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpawning Season\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlood Coming\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelfie as Elly the Doll\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmoke\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Correspondence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuperman and Batman Sleepover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Red and Little Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewe carved our names \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eAll I know of white\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart \u003c\/i\u003eI mean\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eParadise by the Paulding Light\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHome Perm\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCanticle of Waitresses, Waiting\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA Moth\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart \u003c\/i\u003eI mean\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAfter the Funeral, Aunt Sally Tells a Story We’ve Never Heard Before\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe wolf in the trailer,\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eTorch\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eConfession of the Lessee\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003eheart \u003c\/i\u003eI mean\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMy Brush\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePsalm with Pleather Teddy Bears\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the Women’s Hospital \u003cp\u003e III\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhen I write heart I mean\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eElegy with Lake Effect\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn Favor of Defenestration\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eLake Astronomy\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eLetter to My Teenaged Self: You Are a House, You Are a Hammer, You’re the Momentum of the Nail\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhen I say \u003ci\u003ethumping mitral floor\u003c\/i\u003e I mean\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHeroic Origin\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSelfie as What Breaks\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the Absence of Sparrows, I Learned to Stop Hearing Sparrows\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHappily Ever After\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhenever I say \u003ci\u003eheart \u003c\/i\u003eI mean  Acknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633036423448,"sku":"9781625347787","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chamber-after-chamber-paperback-softback-9781625347787","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}