{"product_id":"sacrificial-metal-9781733602020","title":"Sacrificial Metal","description":"Poetry. Winner of the Bronze Medal in the 2020 Florida Book Awards for Poetry. In her second poetry collection SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee's poems offer a meditation through the lens of dance and human movement about the quiet dignities and alienation of illness, caregiving, and living in a racialized body. Part documentary poetics, part mourning diary, part textual choreography, and part nautical-inspired elegy, the poems in SACRIFICIAL METAL serve as inquiries about how we may become socialized or exiled from a community, along with how movement and dance offer possibilities of interconnectedness with one's own body and a sense of collective identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn SACRIFICIAL METAL, Esther Lee dances with astute curiosity and deep tenderness across the shifting grounds of grief, touch, bearing witness, memory, and our obstinate human instinct for future-planning. With great compassion, Lee's poems remind us that everything human eventually unravels, but her poems remind us too that joy is like tragedy, it occurs--undeniably, relentlessly--every day.â Every breath, every dusk, every dinner, every doctor's visit is at once both tourniquet and arteryâ --just one of many gorgeous truths revealed in these pages. --Sean Dorsey, choreographer\/dancer, writer and trans-justice activist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI see SACRIFICIAL METAL as a collection of letters to the self as though the self were a familiar stranger who speaks all the same languages, and happens to also be a scientist interested in the nature of time. This is a correspondence in which the world, and a person's understanding of its many forms of data, is rigorously contemplated and recorded. Where am I in your body now, â asks a poem. It's a beautiful question, one that bears repeating. Esther Lee writes worthy poetry that reveals a keen mind, as well as a spirit that is as intelligent as it is compassionate. --Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam and Registers of Illuminated Villages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Conduit Books \u0026amp; Ephemera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733602020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Esther Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52983049027765,"sku":"9781733602020","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781733602020.jpg?v=1787063820","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sacrificial-metal-9781733602020","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}