{"product_id":"brute-poems-9781555978358","title":"Brute: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. \u003ci\u003eBrute\u003c\/i\u003e arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Brute\u003c\/i\u003e is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. \"What am I supposed to say: I'm \u003ci\u003efree\u003c\/i\u003e?\" the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Emily Skaja","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659653771420,"sku":"9781555978358","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_861b37f5-94be-4702-ba1f-5c7fdd8d567a.jpg?v=1603895207","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/brute-poems-9781555978358","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}