{"product_id":"9780819502216","title":"Songbird","description":"\u003cp\u003eResonant poems give form to the paradoxes of embodiment and interiority\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUtilizing the short lyric poem in long sequence, Songbird addresses matters both urgent and ancient: what it is to grow from a child into an adult, how to remain inside one's body, what it means to open the mouth and sing. Guided by the images, senses, and sounds provided to her by the natural world, the poet invents a stuttering natal language to approach the unsayable aspects of interior life. In doing so, the poems collectively trouble the binaries that beset modern existence: the simultaneous push-pull of sexual desire; the interior and exterior landscapes that shape our perceptual fields; the reckoning of violence with beauty; the human need for both permanency and flight. Songbird is a daring and necessary book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[sample poem]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003elet me take something small\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ebetween my teeth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003epiece of straw meant \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eto signify your body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewhich was given freely to me \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eor threads of me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethat are wheat strands \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ealways these small barters \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efor a price would I give you \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe edge that is\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e your absence for my presence \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eand you between my teeth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efor the price of grass \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe price of all grasses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eso say I \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eto you \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ein prayer \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI would \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eswallow whole \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewhat gave you in part\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48702769397995,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.03,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780819502216-1.jpg?v=1785753864","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780819502216","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}