{"product_id":"how-to-moth-paperback-softback-9780807187081","title":"How to Moth (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807187081","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow to Moth\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\"\u003eHailey Leithauser (Author), Leigh Anne Couch (Series edited by), Carrie Jerrell (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807187081\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e82 pages\u003cbr\u003e0.5 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm, 0.138 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 sounds and rhythms at once ancient and pulsing, the poems in \u003ci\u003eHow to Moth\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly make both love and its loss pleasurable and enticing. They show us how to move from darkness to light—how to moth—and, like Edith Piaf, regret nothing.\" - Angie Estes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"How to describe this glorious concatenation of language—the mystery, the ruddy lust, the transformation of nouns into verbs and back again, the dizzying lingo mambo that made me scream, 'This is what poetry can do!' Leithauser ropes you in with these generous poems—full meals with aperitifs, amuse-bouches, entrées, desserts, and ending with a wild dance party under the stars. If you want to learn how to volcano, moth, survive a lunar eclipse, swallow the moon, regret nothing, pine, or curse a demon, this is the book for you. Incandescence, your name is Hailey Leithauser. Wow!\" - Barbara Hamby\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\u003eHow to Moth\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the joys and the griefs of a life of loving wine, women, and song. Working in both established forms and musical free verse, Hailey Leithauser takes us from slovenly blondes to tipsy milkmaids to \u003ci\u003eAttack of the 50 Foot Woman,\u003c\/i\u003e from pink peignoirs to beds made from burlap sacks, a salver of oysters to a nun's unset table, a fried surfer dame to the person from Porlock, and running throughout it all, the undeniable and unyielding urge to take a mad bite of the moon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551799701784,"sku":"9780807187081","price":15.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-to-moth-paperback-softback-9780807187081","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}