{"product_id":"good-monster-9781556596902","title":"Good Monster","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiannely Antigua's \u003ci\u003eGood Monster\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection \"voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope,\" chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths--a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's \"soft harm\"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When \"God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave,\" language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua's personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.87h x 5.91w x 0.47d","brand":"Diannely Antigua","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766822863029,"sku":"9781556596902","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3647f411-8afc-4c7f-8535-ae38bff2292f.jpg?v=1710818999","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/good-monster-9781556596902","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}