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Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a \"history hurtling into the future.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKaan and Her Sisters\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecenters character of the Arabic teacher, Miss Sahar, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles, refashioned songs, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. In these disclosures, a study of time and a record of resistance to erasure emerges, and at its heart, the women who keep intergenerational memory. \"Our mothers miraculous, persevering.\/No maps are new to the ancestors.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46648961368368,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Tuffahafrontcover.jpg?v=1694562037"},{"product_id":"the-fight-by-jennifer-manthey","title":"The Fight by Jennifer Manthey","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2022 Trio Award, Jennifer Manthey's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e showcases Manthey's experience with adoption, alongside the actions of Varina Davis, history's only First Lady of the Confederate States, to present readers with the complexity of adoption, especially in the case of white mothers with Black children. Her poetry is intimate, tender, and full of potency, navigating \"truth...difficult as history,\" revealing the \"Hate hidden everywhere,\" and asking readers to question what it means to be white in \"a country not built to love [her] son.\" Manthey's power lies in her ability to speak to her readers' hearts while challenging their understanding of ongoing racial inequity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e captures the wealth of collective guilt and discomfort many white Americans are currently wrestling with, the impact that adoption has on the family as a whole, and the ongoing effects of \"white saviorism\" in American society.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46649128452400,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Mantheyfrontcover.jpg?v=1694565858"},{"product_id":"states-of-arousal-by-sunshine-odonnell","title":"States of Arousal by Sunshine O'Donnell","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2022 Louise Bogan Award, Sunshine O'Donnell's States of Arousal offers a gripping and relevant poetry collection outlining the modern human experience. Violence and love are evoked in equal measure, making up the foreground of collective tragedies such as American school shootings and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nostalgia is infused into O'Donnell's imagery, bringing Philadelphia to life as both haunted and beautiful: \"For decades I collect\/ goodbye letters and try to hide them\/ from myself.\" States of Arousal is a collection that takes on large-scale issues with intimate and vulnerable imagery. The reader is confronted by the brutality of the modern world while simultaneously comforted by the delicate displays of the human spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46649143722288,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/O_Donnellfrontcover.jpg?v=1694566035"},{"product_id":"threed-this-road-not-damascus-by-tamara-j-madison","title":"Threed, This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J Madison","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I love the large of the all-encompassing voice in Tamara J. Madison's work, its re-making of history, its daring, convincing belief in the spell of language that transforms, that enchants us into just beings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI love the myth-making, and the imaginative sweeps of this work.\" --Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThreed, This Road Not Damascus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which takes its name from The Three-Breasted Woman and serves as muse for the poet, Tamara J. Madison, functions through multiplicity of voice, drawing on the innate strength Black women have long had to exhibit\/endure, often in silence within patriarchal structures. Madison commits to the dangerous but beautiful task of poeting, which is often an insurrection against the dominate narrative for the sake of a more inclusive narrative.\" --Randall Horton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Tamara J. Madison gives us a story 'between mantra, mojo, conjure' of women, women primordial. The retelling is lush and pure. The power of the poetry in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThreed, This Road Not Damascus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e comes from her miracle of inventing--the poems are what they are about.\" --Carol Frost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709940453680,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Maddison.jpg?v=1695058309"},{"product_id":"sweet-beast-by-gabriella-r-tallmadge","title":"Sweet Beast by Gabriella R Tallmadge","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this collection of poems, Gabriella R. Tallmadge strips away our soft exteriors and exposes the feral desires which escape from their cages when facing the possibility of death. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSweet Beast\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereflects a marriage wounded by the aftermath of a soldier's return from war, relating trauma in the only way it can be told: raw and with no embellishment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTallmadge creates excruciating images onto the page, nurses them, and lets the poems bleed out. In cars kneading coyotes into asphalt, birds knifing through wind, and the torturous fear of death that transforms us into beasts, Tallmadge cuts to the bone to find love within the formidable survival instincts of our primitive self. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSweet Beast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a collection that is as rife with love as much as it is searing with fear, demanding the reader to pivot between the two.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709977678128,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Tallmadge_Gabriella.jpg?v=1695058426"},{"product_id":"my-afmerica-by-artress-bethany-white","title":"My Afmerica by Artress Bethany White","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Afmerica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a restless book, wandering through an America that cannot be separated from its African American people, where to be black is to be considered a body potent with the crimes of treason, with the crime of not being pure\/white, traceable longer back 'than Whitman's leaves of grass.' \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e신\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e선\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e영\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSun Yung Shin, author of Rough, and Savage and 2018\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrio House Press Contest Judge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“My Afmerica\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eforces us to consider the cost of history, brutality, racism, accompanied by documented facts. In doing so, her work makes our bodies react with a nod, a jaw clench, a curse, a sigh, a held breath. White’s art is as evident as her keen use of form translates what the textbooks often miss. There is no overstating that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Afmerica\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis one of those books that should be studied as history, poetry, theory, and art. Artress Bethany White’s second collection of poetry should be committed to memory and passed down as a living, poetic, historical document.”--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWillie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In verse both free and deftly formal, Artress Bethany White unflinchingly mines the notion of family: biological, blended, constructed and decidedly American. She takes no prisoners, or perhaps takes us all prisoners, kicking into the necessary and discomfiting discourse of who we truly are—and how we are tied together in awful, and also surprisingly beautiful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eways.”--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanielle Legros Georges, Poet Laureate, City of Boston\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710063563056,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/White-Front-Cover.jpg?v=1695058668"},{"product_id":"break-the-habit-by-tara-betts","title":"Break the Habit by Tara Betts","description":"Tara Betts' \u003cem\u003eBreak the Habit\u003c\/em\u003e is haunted by jazz, the sound and echo of it, the engagement with grief and loss, the movement of language that captures loneliness and love and relationships severed by death or divorce. These are poems that make the reader weep in the same way a great jazz singer does by touching the very core of what it means to be human -- Maria Gillan, author of Ancestors' Song","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710226944304,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/bth.webp?v=1695059263"},{"product_id":"the-fallow-by-megan-neville","title":"The Fallow by Megan Neville","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the 2021 Trio Award: Megan Neville's The Fallow traverses the nature of birth and death, past and present. Her poetry is hands-on, enveloping the senses with metaphorical exploration of the body and humanity's \" refusal to swallow\" with \"hands around\/ their throats.\" Neville denounces societal expectations of sex, motherhood and the female body, while delving into a nation's seemingly endless cycle of trauma. The Fallow immerses us in Neville's inner struggle with the outdated and unchallenged social norms of this world. With an underhanded fierceness, Neville unfolds the formalities of living for us to digest line by line.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710539190576,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/TheFallowbyMeganNeville.jpg?v=1695059556"},{"product_id":"traditional-feel-of-the-ballroom-by-hannah-gamble","title":"Traditional Feel of the Ballroom by Hannah Gamble","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this collection of poems, Hannah Gamble plucks the girl from both the men and the unnecessary fluff to show the gut-wrenching reality of being a woman around men. In clipped language, she exposes the raw truth of being briefly trapped inside of a bar doorway and pretending to be okay with that.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection doesn't sugarcoat. Instead, it cakes the reader in the dirt of men's hands-hands that may cup a woman's chin in deception or force a woman's hips to theirs. With Gamble's explicitly honest language, the audience (all the while trying to shake the filth) will be unable to stop reading, finding at the core of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Traditional Feel of the Ballroom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e a woman's unshakable determination when she's had enough.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710643425584,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/Gamble_TraditionalFeelOftheBallroom.jpg?v=1695059655"},{"product_id":"rigging-a-chevy-into-a-time-machine-and-other-ways-to-escape-a-plague-by-carolyn-hembree","title":"Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague by Carolyn Hembree","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarolyn Hembree's second poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eselected by Neil Shepard for the 2015 Trio Award and by Stephanie Strickland for the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. The book is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner's manual. Set in rural Appalachia, \"a truck up on concrete blocks\" functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. \"Through wormhole after wormhole,\" the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46943378047280,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/810yEsa7wpL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697117256"},{"product_id":"gold-passage-by-iris-jamahl-dunkle","title":"Gold Passage by Iris Jamahl Dunkle","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"In the moment at the beginning of language words were more than magical, naming things into existence.  A world in duress needs new poetry whose structures and intentions allow a humanizing.  I found the poems in Iris Dunkle's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGold Passage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto be as necessary as those original pronouncements.  Musical and delicate, this work comforts me with its flashes of knowledge that feel the same time ancient and utterly new.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Kazim Ali\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"One of the ancient symbols of poetry is Adam naming the animals of Eden--first connecting words with the world.  Iris Jamahl Dunkle's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGold Passage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epursues this Edenic mission.  The vibrant gesture of her poetry is to give names to the shifting images of existence - things as concrete as a bird or a bobcat or as mysterious as the weight of memory and the invisible energy of love.\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Dana Gioia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"...I envy the east with which Dunkle mixes mythology and modernity, and love best how in her short meditative nature poems she weaves traces of the domestic life. 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Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, \"It takes a hard-ass woman to raise her young.\" Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location-based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger and sadness, \"the animal need to run in all directions at once,\" and family trauma both past and present. This trauma is inflicted on the speaker as a child and to some degree perpetuated through her own parenting. The collection asks the reader to provide space in poetry for a woman trying to do her best for her own and others' sake, for one who has \"made bad decisions and lived.\" Every poem is necessary, and Sevick makes each word count. Honesty carries this collection through her speaker's good, bad, and ugly moments. 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Some are testy, others reverential. Some are humorous, others not so much. The reader can expect a guide, but the guides may not bother to be consistent. Graceful and intimate, Voice\/Poems plucks individual moments from the flow of time to show us how crazy remarkable our ordinary, day-in and day-out, lives are. We are a multitude and a solitude, \"a glory, tiny veins in our fingers,\/pulley of skin working index and thumb.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn these stunning, delicate poems, there is a fierce intelligence and a great tenderness. Susan Azar Porterfield is a master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem. Through her speakers, she offers us meditations on family, loss, and presents us with the beauty of her lush mind. I am thoroughly moved by Susan's poems, and I highly recommend this new collection. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e—Zeeshan Pathan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Minister of Disturbances\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoice\/Poems is Susan Azar Porterfield's fourth book of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield was born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and a mother from rural Arkansas. She was the first in her family to attend college. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British literature and an M.A. in art from the Courtauld Institute in London. She received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and was featured on the Chicago WTTW 11, Arts Across Illinois program. She is a recipient of a Fulbright to Lebanon. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49316105879856,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/VoicePoemsCover.jpg?v=1733406277"},{"product_id":"pre-order-rooms-for-the-dead-and-the-not-yet-by-rhoni-blankenhorn","title":"Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWinner of the 2024 Trio Award, \u003cem\u003eRooms for the Dead and the Not Yet \u003c\/em\u003eexplores landscapes of grief, desire, and identity. How does memory collapse time? In what ways do mourning and longing echo each other? What violence persists beneath narrative and aesthetic surfaces, upholding systems of belief and power? This debut poetry collection revolves around imagination as an act of resilience and rebellion. Blankenhorn’s speaker communes with dead beloveds while buttering toast, petting dogs, kissing lovers, making art, holding hands with friends, and traversing cities and deserts. The beauty and comedy of daily life becomes a provocation into nonlinearity, sexuality, family history, and multiracial selfhood. Slipping between exterior and interior with an unflinching gaze, \u003cem\u003eRooms for the Dead and the Not Yet \u003c\/em\u003einvites us to embrace the impossible complexity of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49355205542192,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/IMG_3612.jpg?v=1735003725"},{"product_id":"pre-order-mele-by-kalehua-kim","title":"Mele by Kalehua Kim","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003ci style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"border: 1pt; padding: 0in; font-family: aptos,sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eMele\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt; padding: 0in; color: black;\"\u003e, by Kalehua Kim, embodies the meaning of the word “mele” – a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition. Winner of the Trio House Press Editor’s Choice Prize, Kim’s debut collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline!important; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003e evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self, as well as the grace and generosity of healing, acknowledgement, and commemoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt; padding: 0in; color: black;\"\u003eThe poems reflect on what we inherit and how who we become is intertwined with who our parents were and are, and the pain of facing that reality: “One day your voice will become mine,Ka leo o maua\/Though I am not prepared for your end…”  With this mele, Kim honors the memory of a lost mother, as well as the struggles of a daughter as she becomes a wife and mother herself, while honoring her roots and forging a new path.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinging with the manifold tongues of the 'aina, Kalehua Kim gives us mana from the depths of her heart and of the heart of Hawai'i nei. 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You can add it to your Kindle by clicking on the file in Finder, choosing \"share file\" and then choosing \"send to Kindle\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eVerb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich's artistic collaborations with choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, galleries, and museums. Erdrich pairs her poems with reflections on these collaborations and with prompts for readers to generate their own art-inspired poetry. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and throughout the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHeid E. Erdrich has authored seven books of poetry, a non-fiction work on Indigenous foods, and she edited New Poets of Native Nations anthology for Graywolf Press. Heid’s forthcoming book Verb Animate combines poetry and prose. Her honors include a National Poetry Series award, the Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress, a Native Arts and Cultures National Fellowship and other awards. She is the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate. 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