{"product_id":"thornwork-9781625578150","title":"Thornwork","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ruth Ann Baumann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know as much as I know, ' Baumann writes, 'and still get out of bed.' And what trauma survivor has not marveled at this exact triumph? \u003ci\u003eTHORNWORK\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous examination of the abundant hunger of both body and psyche to survive. This generous work confronts our inadequacies: 'We have tried you, language, but you have not been enough, ' and nurtures even our most imperceptible efforts: 'I have almost enough courage to keep walking myself home, ' offering a realistic portrait of the untidy endeavor to persevere.\"--Jeanann Verlee \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eTHORNWORK\u003c\/i\u003e sings to the soft sleeping animal at the center of us all, and shows us that to love wrongly is still to love. It's a eulogy for the former self, a prayer, a ghost story. This is an urgent, spell-binding book.\" --Meg Freitag \u003cbr\u003e \"Ruth Baumann's \u003ci\u003eTHORNWORK\u003c\/i\u003e is painted with vertiginous desires, 'I wake up how a thief wakes up, one want at a time.' These poems explore what happens when we harm for or are harmed by that which we desire--'god is not a pitcher plant \/ It's us humans that eat each other.' Baumann leads us into a world that is both familiar and foggy, both lonely and suffocating, a world where 'Life fidgets everywhere.' It isn't Baumann's job to lead us back out--she is here to tell us what's at stake, she is here to show us the 'new angles.' Come in and have a look around. 'Make a sudden noise. See which animals in us come out.'\"--Paige Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46316416827543,"sku":"9781625578150","price":1651.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781625578150.webp?v=1767709739","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thornwork-9781625578150","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}