{"product_id":"splinters-are-children-of-wood-paperback","title":"Splinters Are Children of Wood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeia Penina Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wildly unrestrained poems in \u003ci\u003eSplinters Are Children of Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, pose an increasingly desperate question about what it means to be a girl, the ways girls are shaped by the world, as well as the role myth plays in this coming of age quest. Wilson, an afakasi Samoan poet, divides the book into three sections, linking the poems in each section by titles. In this way the poems act as a continuous song, an ode, or a lament revivifying a narrative that refuses to adopt a storyline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamoan myths and Western stories punctuate this volume in a search to reconcile identity and education. The lyrical declaration is at once an admiration of love and self-loathing. She kills herself. Resurrects herself. Kills herself again. She is also killed by the world. Resurrected. Killed again. These poems map displacement, discontent, and an increasing suspicion of the world itself, or the ways people learn the world. Drawing on the work of Bhanu Kapil, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Wilson's poems reveal familiarity and strangeness, invocation and accusation. Both ritual and ruination, the poems return again and again to desire, myth, the sacred, and body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeia Penina Wilson is an afakasi Samoan poet hailing from the Midwest. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eDream Pop Press\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSplit Lip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirdfeast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBombay Gin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePowder Keg\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOmniVerse\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ei built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2012 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762699272480,"sku":"9780268106188","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/13352262cb3cc4e80be56c14f3cfa549.webp?v=1780223746","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/splinters-are-children-of-wood-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}