{"product_id":"diving-at-the-lip-of-the-water-paperback","title":"Diving at the Lip of the Water - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Poppy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Karen Poppy's much anticipated debut poetry collection, Diving At The Lip Of The Water, is to be published on May 1, 2023 by Beltway Editions. Poppy, a poet and lawyer, has written a book \"that will rough a reader up and then wrap their scrapes in silk,\" according to Francesca Bell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Ferry observes that Karen Poppy \"wields the power of the immortal in each word, each song.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonia Greenfield writes that \" the poems...are wide-ranging...whether they're leaping off from the lines of Whitman or Plath, exploring failures of intimacy, or gathering animals in a menagerie of the symbolic, their untamed characteristics bristling at the book's edges and representative of the speaker's own wild sense of self.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book confronts family systems and societal gender expectations, to reclaim what makes us powerful and whole. It revels in and demonstrates what Judy Grahn calls \"paradox and power\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHence, the diver dives at the lip of the water. What waits for her when she enters? You will find the answer in these luminous, arresting poems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.7 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772688171296,"sku":"9781957372037","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/995ab161bce886c0d266687abebd5fe5.webp?v=1780411532","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/diving-at-the-lip-of-the-water-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}