{"product_id":"this-is-my-body-poems-paperback-softback-9780810148253","title":"This Is My Body; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148253","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThis Is My Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Fletcher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148253\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e48 pages\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 12.7 x 14.9 cm, 0.454 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\"Jonathan Fletcher's poems draw us into the quiet, ordinary spaces--dens, bathtubs, bedrooms--to reveal the resonant and extraordinary transformations that take place within them. Here are poems of blood and dust and buckskin crafted with a tenderness and deep regard for the body's longings and losses. There is no wound or desire that Fletcher's poetry is afraid to touch. And in his exquisitely rendered moments of vulnerability we are awakened to the possibilities of erotic union and of spiritual deliverance.\"—Deborah Paradez, author of \u003ci\u003eYear of the Dog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is My Body\u003c\/i\u003e readily and unapologetically examines issues of race and ethnicity, ancestry and community, mental illness and recovery, queer sexuality and identity, and the body and disability. Traditionally religious language and hopeful imagery abound; so, too, do their spiritual antagonists: doubt, loss, isolation, and despair. But even in the darkest moments of a troubled inner life, insight and triumph intervene and sometimes even linger. An intimate exploration of the human experience, this debut collection proves itself more than the sum of its interior encounters—however revelatory or transformative any one given experience might be. It is a timely and necessary exercise in faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan\u003cbr\u003e Dirigibles\u003cbr\u003e Killing Crockett\u003cbr\u003e Stigmata\u003cbr\u003e Near-Death Experience\u003cbr\u003e Coconut\u003cbr\u003e Velcro\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Bailey\u003cbr\u003e Porcelain Mother\u003cbr\u003e Mummy\u003cbr\u003e This Is My Body\u003cbr\u003e Dinocampus coccinellae\u003cbr\u003e Medusa\u003cbr\u003e W.W.J.D.\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait as Whiter, Happier\u003cbr\u003e Marble\u003cbr\u003e Phineas Gage\u003cbr\u003e Meet Me Not in the Seventh Circle\u003cbr\u003e Horsemen of the Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e Evolution of an Organism\u003cbr\u003e Scales\u003cbr\u003e Boys\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667931416,"sku":"9780810148253","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/this-is-my-body-poems-paperback-softback-9780810148253","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}