{"product_id":"host-9780299347147","title":"Host","description":"In raw, lyrical poems, \u003ci\u003eHost \u003c\/i\u003eexplores parasitic relationships--between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the earth--and considers their consequences. How much control do we have over our lives? To what extent are we being controlled? And how much does it matter in the end? Revealing the unvarnished pain of mistreatment--whether inflicted maliciously or accidentally--Lisa Fay Coutley examines legacies of abuse in poems that explore how trauma parasitizes bodies, infecting the text, repeating in language and image the injuries the body has been subjected to. \u003cbr\u003e Ask me why \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e light can pour warm through a cold bay \u003cbr\u003e window while water under sun is dark \u003cbr\u003e as a closed door. A man's hand \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e erases a girl's thigh. The trees start starving \u003cbr\u003e themselves into everyone's favorite color. \u003cbr\u003e Her darkest room digs itself \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e below her throne. The body knows no \u003cbr\u003e wrong move. The more love, the more. \u003cbr\u003e --Excerpt from \"Oubliette\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299347147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lisa Fay Coutley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43505719541941,"sku":"9780299347147","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a1f2c248-6b97-49df-ae45-ac8b283d96b2.jpg?v=1705423330","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/host-9780299347147","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}