{"product_id":"scrap-book-9781949944792","title":"Scrap Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScrap Book, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe debut collection from Nick Martino, is a lyric, hybrid exploration of his father's prison sentence and its aftermath--an inherited history marked by silence, fracture, shame, and addiction. Weaving poems with invented forms, familial documents, and fragmented memory, Martino constructs an autoethnographic study of carceral trauma and its reverberations across generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet within a Midwestern family home along the shores of Lake Michigan, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e draws on Marianne Hirsch's theory of postmemory: \"the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their birth but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply.\" Interwoven with poems grounded in a familial archive--such as journal entries and Polaroids of Martino's father in prison--the collection uses the idea of photographic development as a framework for exploring how insight into family history can emerge gradually, like an image appearing in a darkroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its use of ekphrasis and archival fragments, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e creates a textural interior landscape in which the speaker wrestles with how they see themselves and how they are seen by others. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of gathering and repair--a lyrical stitching-together of fragments in search of meaning. In reassembling the family archive, Martino opens a space for readers to do the same: to sift through memory, injury, and ego, and fashion from their own \"scraps\" a deeper understanding of what they carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949944792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100","brand":"Nick Martino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452330340533,"sku":"9781949944792","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_969bbb35-0e11-410e-980f-51fcfa0c02a0.jpg?v=1776826776","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scrap-book-9781949944792","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}