{"product_id":"self-portrait-with-cephalopod-paperback","title":"Self-Portrait with Cephalopod - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathryn Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2022 Washington State Book Award finalist \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEnvironmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait with Cephalopod\u003c\/em\u003e--selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize--is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in the world; of being a living creature on a doomed planet; of being someone who aspires to do better but is torn between attention and distraction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties, prophecies and prayers, darkness and light--but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, \"the bloody hand holding back \/ the skin,\" revealing \"the world's inner workings, \/ rubbery and caught between the teeth.\" These are the poems of someone who feels her and our failings in the viscera, in the bones, and who bears witness to that pain on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait with Cephalopod\u003c\/em\u003e is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait with Cephalopod\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the collection \u003ci\u003eBook of Exodus\u003c\/i\u003e and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eChosen Companions of the Goblin\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBellingham Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRedivider\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and she has received an Allied Arts Foundation award, a Spokane Arts Grant Award, and a Pushcart Special Mention. She received her MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University and lives in Spokane, Washington, where she also makes collage and mixed media art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769061343520,"sku":"9781571315175","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/75b4a90bfa9870eee0e6de61346ceda5.webp?v=1780341693","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/self-portrait-with-cephalopod-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}