{"product_id":"high-ground-coward-paperback","title":"High Ground Coward - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlicia Mountain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlicia Mountain's urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. \u003ci\u003eHigh Ground Coward \u003c\/i\u003eoffers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. \"Ferocious, even the softest part,\" Mountain shows us \"a way to fall in love with wanting,\" leaving us \"ravenous, but gradually.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, \u003ci\u003eHigh Ground Coward \u003c\/i\u003eis an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain's speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, \u003ci\u003eHigh Ground Coward \u003c\/i\u003eheralds a thrilling poetic debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Scavenger\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere are stores beneath the floor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePotatoes and shallots, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehard-necked garlic streaked purple, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejars beside jars, themselves \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach staving globes of suction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreservation, a guardian hunger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the evening I whisper to the boiled beet, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike a naked organ in my flushed hand: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are ground blood, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou are new born, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou have never been nothing-- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehandpull shedscrub mouthsweet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Mountain\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e Four in Hand\u003c\/i\u003e and the digital chapbook \u003ci\u003eThin Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701020495935,"sku":"9781609385453","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a1f56426edc9ae5ac47e42a15eda9a75.webp?v=1765019033","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/high-ground-coward-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}