{"product_id":"poem-bitten-by-a-man-paperback","title":"Poem Bitten by a Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Teare\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived in devotion to poetry and visual art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA medical emergency, a road trip, a breakup, and a paean to the power of creative process--\u003ci\u003ePoem Bitten by a Man\u003c\/i\u003e is for everyone who has tried against the odds to make a life in art, whether they succeeded or not. Using somatic language captured through a notebook practice, Teare recontextualizes the work of Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and others via art criticism, psychoanalysis, biography, queer theory, and historical document to honor writers, artists, and thinkers who sustain us when nothing else does.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, \u003cb\u003eBrian Teare \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eight chapbooks and six critically acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eCompanion Grasses\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and \u003ci\u003eDoomstead Days\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publication is the 2022 reissue of \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e; his seventh book, \u003ci\u003ePoem Bitten by a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Nightboat in the fall of 2023. His honors include Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he's now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. Author residence: Charlottesville, VA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.3 x 7.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764848787744,"sku":"9781643622101","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/98c46619333d4a17e1dad3b372812512.webp?v=1780256338","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/poem-bitten-by-a-man-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}