{"product_id":"trauma-decor-9781646627288","title":"Trauma Decor","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Hess\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title poem for the chapbook, \u003cem\u003eTrauma Décor, \u003c\/em\u003e which was finalist in the Midwestern Writing Center's Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest, carries the chapbook's often-present theme of a protagonist's apocalyptic foreboding set in motion, here, by an oversaturation of \u003cem\u003eterror\u003c\/em\u003e images delivered by a 24-hour American news cycle. An acutely drawn arena of adolescent growth in a world on the brink is frequently depicted from a midwestern perspective, especially evident in the poems \"Gargantuan,\" \"Life on Mars,\" and \"Charlton Heston is Dead,\" recently anthologized in Teresa Chuc's \u003cem\u003eNuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in our Hands\u003c\/em\u003e. While the body of poems often pose more questions than answers regarding the self-fracturing happenings of familial loss, societal violence, climate-change, and addiction, these questions effectively function as an ever-present texture that inhabits the chapbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46448121544855,"sku":"9781646627288","price":1317.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781646627288.webp?v=1769142780","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/trauma-decor-9781646627288","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}