{"product_id":"lying-in-poems-paperback","title":"Lying in: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Metzger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All my life all I've wanted was to be myself \/ and someone else,\" writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self-into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. New loss haunts new life, and life becomes \"one or two lives.\" The door is more valuable than the prize behind it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith ambivalence as well as deep feeling, Metzger wonders how a single body can be expected to hold both immense joy and immense mourning, profound longing and creeping numbness, when one so often overtakes the other. She plunges into the darkness inside--of the gloomy room, the inner body, the afterlife and the pre-language mind--and sends back \"a searchlight across the underworld,\" Eurydice in search of herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAching and contemplative, \u003ci\u003eLying In\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite portrait of an in-between time--and of the person who emerges on the other side. \"Isn't it obvious how we've changed?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Metzger\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLying In\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eBed\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poems have been published in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and Poem-a-Day\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e Her essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunction\u003c\/i\u003es, \u003ci\u003e PN Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLiterary Hub, among others. She is a poetry editor at the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand she lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731856855103,"sku":"9781639550104","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d1602f8a895f4054915d1cda01dc4f90.webp?v=1765130384","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/lying-in-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}