{"product_id":"book-of-potions-9781956046359","title":"Book of Potions","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of \u003ci\u003eBook of Potions\u003c\/i\u003e captures a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between generations, locked in stereotyped roles and stultifying social norms, confined by other people's expectations and their projections of what a woman should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns enraged, funny, frustrated, astute and joyful, these short hybrid pieces (potion = poem + fiction) combine the lyric compression of poetry with the narrative expansiveness of prose. Readers will meander, spellbound, through a wildly imaginative dream world of fairy-tale landscapes, allegorical insights, social satire, thought experiments and vivid surreal imagery, scenes of otherworldly strangeness and haunting beauty. These potions are elixirs in language, some healing, some poisonous, all magical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956046359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104","brand":"Lauren K. Watel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916343111861,"sku":"9781956046359","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aa6066d6-7c70-437e-9c65-0b795687a839.jpg?v=1734450021","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/book-of-potions-9781956046359","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}