{"product_id":"stigmata-9781772016918","title":"Stigmata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStigmata\u003c\/em\u003e is about bodies caught in the crosscurrents of sexual deviancy and religion. Its poems are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory; they transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. \u003cem\u003eStigmata\u003c\/em\u003e draws inspiration from a broad archive of texts and practices: apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex. Together its poems form a counterhistory of the wound, an experiment in fractured memoir and misplaced anatomy that weaponizes the confessional mode, wrenching it from self-narration to approach a violence that breaks language and bodies apart. Taking a cue from New Narrative writing, \u003cem\u003eStigmata\u003c\/em\u003e fuses the \"high\" to the \"low\" - the \"sacred\" of theory and theology to the \"profane\" of leaking and lust. The result is a treacherous adventure, helped along by a bitter sense of humour, to the limits of faith and body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772016918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Scott Jackshaw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51495021412533,"sku":"9781772016918","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f42b536e-52cf-4be3-a3f2-2cc04ddbf544.jpg?v=1754973653","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stigmata-9781772016918","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}