{"product_id":"the-apple-of-their-throat-poems-9781771684613","title":"The Apple of Their Throat: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Apple of Their Throat \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a love story, and a testament to the quiet, defiant resilience it takes to build a life when the world says you don't belong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an intimate and unflinching journey through self-discovery, first love, heartbreak, and the faith we lose and find on the way to becoming. Told in three powerful movements--Pollination, Fertilization, and Ripening--this memoir-in-verse begins with the breathless urgency of early desire and the ache of wanting to be chosen: by God, by family, by love. It weaves through grief, guilt, and rupture, arriving at a reclamation of self that is healed, scarred, and still tender. It is both a prayer and a battle cry, laying bare emotions in all their contradiction--divine, flawed, and achingly real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith language that is both accessible and precise, these poems capture the ache of longing, the quiet fractures of faith, and the fragile bloom of first love. This is a collection that interrogates religion, asking what holiness looks like for those cast out and it pulses with honesty, restraint, and the kind of intimacy that feels like being handed a secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Central Avenue Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771684613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs","brand":"Kevin T. Norman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472928731317,"sku":"9781771684613","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8556bc7f-6bc0-4500-a5a9-26021e9bbd3f.jpg?v=1777444783","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-apple-of-their-throat-poems-9781771684613","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}