{"product_id":"the-wendys-9781945588426","title":"The Wendys","description":"\"Because it is easier to miss a stranger \/ with your mother's name,\" Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that still lingers after the death of a sixth Wendy, the author's long-absent mother. A series of epistolary poems addressed to Wendy O. Williams becomes an occasion for the speaker to eulogize as well as reflect on the singer's life and eventual suicide: \"What kind of love is death, I'm asking?\" In the section devoted to Wendy Torrance, the fictional wife from The Shining who was bludgeoned by her husband, the speaker muses on the inadequacy of language to resolve or even contain grief in the wake of trauma: \"A book is a coffin. Hoarsely. A white sheet draped over the cage of being.\" Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Wendys\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of silences and space in which tenderness and violence exist in exquisite tension. \"If to speak is to die,\" White writes in \"Ignis Fatuus,\" \"I will whisper.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2020 pg. 95\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Allison Benis White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672121798812,"sku":"9781945588426","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e8fd39a3-5191-4490-a121-3fc895c66401.jpg?v=1603927004","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-wendys-9781945588426","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}