{"product_id":"country-songs-for-alice-paperback","title":"Country Songs for Alice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmma Binder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of obsession, gender, love, and loss in contemporary rural America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCountry Songs for Alice\u003c\/i\u003e, a nonbinary, queer narrator passes through the crucible of love, romance, and heartbreak against the backdrop of rural America-a landscape which offers luminous belonging, even as the hazards of homophobia, loneliness, and isolation loom large. Part roadtrip, part mixtape, these poems are explorations of love, music, romance, pageantry, loneliness, and belonging in the rural places and small towns that seem to preclude queer culture. \u003ci\u003eCountry Songs for Alice\u003c\/i\u003e not only tells the story of a relationship and its dissolution but reclaims country western imagery and aesthetics for a queer audience, dousing the narrator's experience in the language of cowboys, horses, rodeos, trucks, and desert skies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Binder \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer from Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. They received their MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and were previously a Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 8.98 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758735327520,"sku":"9781961209022","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/37f11a09fce005c8738c36a2cf2e1652.webp?v=1780133993","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/country-songs-for-alice-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}