{"product_id":"crossing-pleasure-avenue-paperback","title":"Crossing Pleasure Avenue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Hildebrand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"We take our pleasure as we can,\" Karen Hildebrand writes in the title poem to \u003cem\u003eCrossing Pleasure Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, in a voice filled with desire tempered by loss. And there is much pleasure in this book of terse lyrics that engages the reader with humor, brio, and bite, in poems about everything from the 60s TV show \u003cem\u003eLeave It to Beaver \u003c\/em\u003ewith a crossdressing Beev, to imagining a year without men, to envisioning widows hijacking the C train. In these wildly imaginative poems, Karen Hildebrand sings the aging woman's body electric  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHARON DOLIN \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Hildebrand's poetry is like sociology--if sociology could be felt by the hairs on one's neck and seen in fragrant, Fauvist Technicolor. Her brilliant debut full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eCrossing Pleasure Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, reminds us of the strangeness of the everyday and the pleasure in those ripe moments when the past and the present buckle and overlap. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOANNA FUHRMAN \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly Karen Hildebrand could write an ode to toilets of the world called \"Dear John\"; \"A History of Feminism\" that includes a bucket list; \"The Sixties, Explained\" via beloved TV shows; \"Ode to My Bunion\"; and \"The Day the Widows Hijack the C Train.\" From \"moonshine ranch wives\" to Emily Dickinson and her fruitcake to a \"Femme Fatale,\" Hildebrand honors the women who have come before and the women who we are. She is funny, fervent, and fierce. \u003cem\u003eCrossing Pleasure Avenue \u003c\/em\u003eis delightfully profound. I'd take a walk with her poetry any day  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDENISE DUHAMEL \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742252142655,"sku":"9781945023132","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1ad88f7137448681bdd8112cf61aacba.webp?v=1765163166","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/crossing-pleasure-avenue-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}