{"product_id":"hard-child-9781556595097","title":"Hard Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon.”—\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Shapero’s poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things.”—\u003ci\u003eVolta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThought-provoking and sardonically expressive, Shapero is a self-proclaimed “hard child”—unafraid of directly addressing bleakness as she continually asks what it means to be human and to bring new life into the world. \u003ci\u003eHard Child\u003c\/i\u003e is musical and argumentative, deadly serious yet tinged with self-parody, evoking the spirit of Plath while remaining entirely its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Hot Streak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActually it’s ridiculous to opine on what kind\u003cbr\u003eof a dog I would be, were I ever a dog, as I don’t\u003cbr\u003econtain within me half enough life to power\u003cbr\u003ea dog. I WOULD BE A DEAD DOG, THAT’S\u003cbr\u003eWHAT KIND, or\u003cbr\u003emaybe a mere industrial object\u003cbr\u003eboasting a low-grade animation, some odd beep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor flicker, like a dryer or a bulb. So, sure, I could\u003cbr\u003ebe a reluctant bulb, the only one still offering light\u003cbr\u003ein an otherwise burnt-out fixture bolted\u003cbr\u003ehard to a row house porch. And all those moths,\u003cbr\u003ewith no other place to die. Can’t they murder\u003cbr\u003ethemselves on someone else?...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatalie Shapero has worked as a civil rights lawyer and is currently Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. Her first poetry collection No Object was published in 2013, and her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Believer, The New Republic, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359612993879,"sku":"9781556595097","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556595097.jpg?v=1754125179","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hard-child-9781556595097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}