{"product_id":"splashed-things-leigh-lucas","title":"Splashed Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In my new life, I must learn everything again,\" begins \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. \u003c\/b\u003eWith startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places-the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leigh Lucas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44237043433514,"sku":"9781968507053","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/splashed-things-2271783.jpg?v=1775497273","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/splashed-things-leigh-lucas","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}