{"product_id":"wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound-paperback","title":"Wound from the Mouth of a Wound - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTorrin A. Greathouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Bustle Best Book of 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some girls are not made,\" torrin a. greathouse writes, \"but spring from the dirt.\" Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, \u003cem\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e--selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry--challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates \"buckteeth \u0026amp; ulcer.\" She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse's poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. \"I'm still learning not to let a stranger speak \/ me into a funeral.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcrete and evocative, \u003cem\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse--elegant, vicious, \"a one-girl armageddon\" draped in crushed velvet--teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional recognition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \"New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Poetry Collection\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NBC Out \"Best LGBTQ Book to Gift This Holiday Season\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Book Marks \"Most Anticipated Poetry Collection of Fall\/Winter 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Lambda \"Most Anticipated LGBTQ Book of December 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Chicago Review of Books \"Must-Read Book of December 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003etorrin a. greathouse\u003c\/b\u003e is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWound from the Mouth of a Wound\u003c\/i\u003e, which was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and has received fellowships from Zoeglossia, the Effing Foundation, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Their work is published in \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\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 0.4 x 8.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792478109984,"sku":"9781571315274","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/daac301e72b74c3462d96385b41b7bf2.webp?v=1780702200","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wound-from-the-mouth-of-a-wound-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}