{"product_id":"i-built-a-boat-with-all-the-towels-in-your-closet-and-will-let-you-drown-paperback","title":"I Built a Boat with All the Towels in Your Closet (and Will Let You Drown) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeia Penina Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeia Penina Wilson's \u003ci\u003ei built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a love ballad and a warning. These poems are--at their simplest--about relationships, sex, love, creatures, different kinds (and degrees) of violence, and--at their most complex--about the limits of the imagination, of language, and about the power the imagination has over the body. These poems confront the shifty line between human and animal, and urge the question: at what cost the body. Wilson's animal-human doesn't intend to answer that question; instead, she lunges towards it and tears it up and begins again, and again, and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeia Penina Wilson is an MFA candidate in prose at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. When she's not reading or writing, she spends her time baking tiny cakes and cookies. When she's not baking, she plays Magic: The Gathering and cuddles with her boyfriend on the couch. She is the nonfiction editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Black Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work can be found in, or is forthcoming from, \u003ci\u003eDiagram\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlice Blue Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chariton Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNAP\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. She is originally from St. Joseph, Missouri. Her first book, \u003ci\u003ei built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)\u003c\/i\u003e, won the A Room of Her Own Foundation's \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Publication Prize, selected by Evie Shockley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799982080288,"sku":"9781597095396","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/66eb87b842d1f874259128ce2322ddc5.webp?v=1780828766","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/i-built-a-boat-with-all-the-towels-in-your-closet-and-will-let-you-drown-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}