{"product_id":"cadaver-speak-9781556594656","title":"Cadaver, Speak","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonored by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e as an \"Amazing Poetry Title\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Extraordinary how in a single poem from 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Boruch slides 1800s London barber-surgeons and the dissection of murderers only (condemned to hell anyway) to the observation, ‘Future or past, it’s all we ever think about.’ The first part of this sharp, surprising book captures our inescapable but slippery physicality in the world, the second the breakdown of the cadaver of a 99-year-old woman—told from her perspective, rather jauntily.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Boruch displays a quietly gymnastic intellect in the examinations of art, the body, and the human condition.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marianne Boruch''s work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: she sees and considers with intensity.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some books begin as a dare to the self,\" notes poet Marianne Boruch. Inspired by life-study drawing classes and direct work in a cadaver lab, Boruch''s latest book looks at what the body holds, and examines living through bodies deceased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Boruch\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press), two volumes of essays, and a memoir. In 2013 she won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359612502359,"sku":"9781556594656","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556594656.jpg?v=1754125175","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cadaver-speak-9781556594656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}