{"product_id":"a-handmade-museum-9781566891431","title":"A Handmade Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brenda Coultas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Coultas's prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9\/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures pieced together from bits of memory and a montage of American detritus. This cinematic and wildly original collection asks the big questions as it documents our private selves, playing out our lives in public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore becoming a poet, Brenda Coultas was a farmer, a carny, a taffy maker, a park ranger, a waitress in a disco ballroom, and the second woman welder in Firestone Steel's history. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Epoch, Fence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives one block from the Bowery in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999831998615,"sku":"9781566891431","price":951.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781566891431.webp?v=1783601876","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-handmade-museum-9781566891431","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}