{"product_id":"the-exchange","title":"The Exchange","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Black's voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and [her poetry] is steep, precipitous and dazzling.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry * \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI took care of myself. I took care\u003cbr\u003eOf myself, thinking much too often \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI took care of someone else.\u003cbr\u003eEverything feels like payment.\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Pay Attention\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Exchange\u003c\/i\u003e, Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through a long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront in stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world--the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion--intrudes. What is gained and what is sacrificed, and how can those profits and losses be measured when the currency involved is love?","brand":"Sophie Cabot Black","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68099342106775,"sku":"9781555976415","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_693082ee-baf5-4cbe-a5ce-fa3744515d2e.jpg?v=1792480657","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-exchange","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}