{"product_id":"rise-and-float-poems-paperback","title":"Rise and Float: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Tierney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney's \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the journey of a poet working--remarkably, miraculously--to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the \"corpse of Frost\" under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father's death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide--all of these compound to \"month after \/ month\" and \"dream \/ after dream\" of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry's cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like \"wrist skin when a grater slips,\" a \"laugh as good as a scream,\" pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The course of \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to \"trying, these days, to believe again \/ in people,\" another concedes that \"defeat \/ sometimes is defeat \/ without purpose.\" Look: the chair is just a chair.\" But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy \"torn open\" by dogs and a suicide, \"two beautiful teenagers are kissing.\" Between screams, something intimate--hope, however difficult it may be.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Tierney\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e, which was selected by Randall Mann as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in or are forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAdroit Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, he is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford and winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award. He grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Oakland, where he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767825367328,"sku":"9781571315199","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/570d089dea157ece8c3543bde64c7297.webp?v=1780318104","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rise-and-float-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}