{"product_id":"bury-it-paperback","title":"Bury It - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Sax\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esam sax's \u003ci\u003ebury i\u003c\/i\u003et, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says \"\u003ci\u003ebury it\u003c\/i\u003e is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously.\" In this phenomenal second collection of poems, sam sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must leap from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003esam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator currently living in Brooklyn. He's the author of \u003ci\u003eMadness\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Poetry Series, and the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689767014463,"sku":"9780819577313","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d52d27df1b6b56ca0889cec29fb83284.webp?v=1764986646","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bury-it-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}