{"product_id":"the-book-of-goodbyes-paperback","title":"The Book of Goodbyes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2013 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Book of 2013\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NPR \"Best Book of 2013\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Coldfront Magazine \"Top 40 Poetry Book\" for 2013\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These fierce, hip, heartbreaking love poems call out to a lover who can't be lived with or without. They're humorous, odd, and full of all the unreasonable truth of love. This book is the real thing.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeise's collection \"examines the daily life and consciousness of a speaker with a disability willing to confront all taboos associated with sex, intimacy, identity, gender, and love.\" - \u003ci\u003eColdfront Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e described Jillian Weise's debut poetry collection as \"a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden.\" In this second collection she forwards her bold, sexy poetics by chronicling an affair with a man she names \"Big Logos.\" These poems throw into question sex, the law, identity, sentiment, and power, shifting between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI've Been Waiting All Night\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI reckon you were asleep with your girl\u003cbr\u003ebefore the phone rang. Make something up.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI've been waiting all night to tell you\u003cbr\u003eabout the couple in post-War France, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe woman fresh in her grave\u003cbr\u003eand the man who didn't like his mistress dead, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eno sir, and so exhumed her, to the dismay\u003cbr\u003eof his wife, who had him arrested\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efor the stink he made.\u003cbr\u003eShe was reburied, returned to the dead.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter jail, he dug her up to fuck again.\u003cbr\u003eAttached suction cups and crafted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea wig from a broom. You can go now.\u003cbr\u003eI'm more in the mood than you're used to.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e--an above-the-knee amputee with a computerized prosthetic--identifies as a cyborg and has discussed the identity in essays for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee's Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eThe Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpoint\/Soft Skull Press, 2010). She is an assistant professor at Clemson University, a contributing editor at the \u003ci\u003eSouth Carolina Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-director of the Annual Clemson Literary Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJillian Weise publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee's Guide to Sex, The Colony, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTin House.\u003c\/i\u003e Weise has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Fulbright Program, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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