{"title":"Gabrielle Calvocoressi","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabrielle Calvocoressi (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is a poet who writes expansive, formally inventive verse at the intersection of American music, landscape, race, and gender identity. They received their MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and have taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\u003c\/em\u003e (Persea Books, 2005), \u003cem\u003eApocalyptic Swing\u003c\/em\u003e (Persea, 2009), and \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e (Persea, 2017), which won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. They have received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and an NEA Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-economy","title":"New Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Finalist*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Economy\u003c\/em\u003e memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical collaboration, failure, and renewal. A world of \"Miss You\" poems opening a portal to all those we've lost and would love to visit for a while. In Gabrielle Calvocoressi's latest collection, \u003cem\u003eThe New Economy\u003c\/em\u003e, poems are haunted by the ghosts of loved ones and childhood memories, by changing landscapes and bodies. Calvocoressi's own figure is examined--investigating the desire to protect the body one is born with and the longing to have been born in another. Cisterns sing with the musicality of a poet who understands both the power of sound and silence--those quiet spaces inviting us to consider the words we cannot hear. \"The days I don't kill myself are extraordinary\" one poems says. \"Why don't we have a name for it?\" Lyrical and unafraid, \u003cem\u003eThe New Economy\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to name our fears and sorrows, to write to who or what has left us, to create practices that can hold both the darkness and light of this (in)finite life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabrielle Calvocoressi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43797493153834,"sku":"9781556597213","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/new-economy-1415713.jpg?v=1762250598"},{"product_id":"rocket-fantastic-poems","title":"Rocket Fantastic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike nothing before it, in \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital book for our time.\"--Diana Whitney, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabrielle Calvocoressi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43839947604010,"sku":"9780892554928","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/rocket-fantastic-poems-8473580.jpg?v=1763534265"},{"product_id":"the-last-time-i-saw-amelia-earhart-poems","title":"The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems","description":"Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in \"Circus Fire, 1944,\" which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, \"Suite Billy Strayhorn,\" for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, \"At the Adult Drive-In,\" which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\u003c\/i\u003e portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.","brand":"Gabrielle Calvocoressi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44411494891562,"sku":"9780892553150","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/the-last-time-i-saw-amelia-earhart-poems-7392946.jpg?v=1780290251"},{"product_id":"apocalyptic-swing-poems","title":"Apocalyptic Swing: Poems","description":"\"She is a daring act as a poet\/athlete . . . but she can also travel the backwoods, pointing out herons, ivy vines and creek water with a kind of divining rod rightness. . . . 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