{"product_id":"book-of-potions-paperback","title":"Book of Potions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren K. Watel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of \u003ci\u003eBook of Potions\u003c\/i\u003e captures a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between generations, locked in stereotyped roles and stultifying social norms, confined by other people's expectations and their projections of what a woman should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns enraged, funny, frustrated, astute and joyful, these short hybrid pieces (potion = poem + fiction) combine the lyric compression of poetry with the narrative expansiveness of prose. Readers will meander, spellbound, through a wildly imaginative dream world of fairy-tale landscapes, allegorical insights, social satire, thought experiments and vivid surreal imagery, scenes of otherworldly strangeness and haunting beauty. These potions are elixirs in language, some healing, some poisonous, all magical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren K. Watel\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. \u003ci\u003eBook of Potions, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books, is her first book. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also won awards from \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers, Writer's Digest, \u003c\/i\u003eMoment Magazine-Karma Foundation and \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her prose poem honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was set to music by Pulitzer-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and the piece premiered at the Dallas Symphony. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she lives in Decatur, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773199483168,"sku":"9781956046359","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/77370fc9496bb8e822503446cea3fc7a.webp?v=1780421909","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/book-of-potions-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}