{"product_id":"figeater","title":"Figeater","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Andrea Carter's powerful \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, \"we follow the\/road, the terrible invention\/\/ of hope\" until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is \"a constant\/ hurricane, grasping, expanding, \/ feeling for a purchase, stability, \/ a place to collapse, fall apart, re-\/accumulate.\" What abundant, soulful, heartwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tomás Q. Morín\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-\"I am a moving violation\" says the speaker-trapped with \"no one to release me from my glass coffin.\" There is emptiness and hunger here-\"No one will know\/\/the hunger of us.\" The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: \"I looked more like\/an adult even at ten, and my body\/\/belonged to my stepfather.\" In a key poem, \"The Welder,\" the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-\"the daughter is [...]\/the conjoining joint, testament\/\/between her mother\/and the man her mother sends\/her daughter to\/\/in order to make him happy.\" \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Donna Spruijt-Metz\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Carter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838042800170,"sku":"9781957062259","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/figeater-5506549.jpg?v=1763447334","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/figeater","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}