{"product_id":"face-up-a-collection-of-outlaw-poems-paperback","title":"Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSuzanne Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBelo Cipriani\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlison McGhee\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2021 OLEB BOOKS POETRY PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFace Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume of unmistakable power. Defying social expectations, Suzanne Nielsen writes \"I was born in the mid-fifties with fists for hands because \/ in utero \/ I knew life wasn't fooling around.\" As she explores recurrent themes of physical illness, depression, and addiction, she demonstrates self-awareness gleaned from a life lived fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Nielsen's poems are peopled with wry survivors attending to their lives with purpose and humor. A newly sober friend will \"jingle his medallion in his pocket \/ and mimic a canine sense of direction.\" An adult navigating clinical depression will \"climb into bed wearing . . . street clothes that haven't seen the streets for weeks.\" Relationships form in unexpected ways. Bertha from the Midway \"swore to sit on them, \/ and I swore to watch her back, \/ and we became best friends for those ten days.\" In these poems of tenderness and grit, sorrow is always accompanied by wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47472291348658,"sku":"9781732312753","price":11.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/195e71111098d690171fd3448f2e746a.webp?v=1779105555","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/face-up-a-collection-of-outlaw-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}