{"product_id":"praying-naked-9780814255735","title":"Praying Naked","description":"Through language both reverent and reckless, Katie Condon's debut collection renders the body a hymn. \u003ci\u003ePraying Naked \u003c\/i\u003eis Eden in the midst of the fall, the meat of the apple sweet as sex. In this collection, God is a hopeless and dangerous flirt, mothers die and are resurrected, and disappointing lovers run like hell for the margins. With effortless swagger and confessional candor, Condon lays bare the thrill of lust and its subsequent shame. In poems brimming with \"the desire \/ to be desired\" by men, by God, by lovers' other women, by oneself, she renders a world in which wildflowers are coated in ash and dark bedrooms flicker with the blue light of longing. The speaker implores like an undressed wound: \"is it wrong to feel a hurt kind of beautiful?\" Ecstatic and incisive, \u003ci\u003ePraying Naked \u003c\/i\u003eis a daring sexual and spiritual reckoning by a breathtaking new poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814255735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d","brand":"Katie Condon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644554408092,"sku":"9780814255735","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_42dbf586-00e1-4514-89c7-4562f3e3d733.jpg?v=1603858889","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/praying-naked-9780814255735","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}