{"product_id":"wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound","title":"Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, \u003cem\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth \u0026amp; ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak \/ me into a funeral.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcrete and evocative, \u003cem\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315555082622,"sku":"NW9781571315274","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781571315274.jpg?v=1778716466","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}