{"product_id":"our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible-paperback","title":"Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Lindenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiving in landscapes of ruin and ruination, memory and problematic nostalgia, Rebecca Lindenberg's \u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the depths of disruption, decay, and how we go on when the world stops cold.\u003c\/b\u003e Inspired by the speaker's experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, the collection chronicles humanity's daily fight for survival in a world that's bent on destroying itself.\u003c\/p\u003eLindenberg centers love, self-acceptance, and intimacy as incomparable balms across great geographical and psychological distances, and asks the reader to do the impossible: hope.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Lindenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2024), \u003ci\u003eThe Logan Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e (Mountain West Poetry Series, 2014), winner of the Utah Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eLove, an Index\u003c\/i\u003e (McSweeney's 2012). She's the recipient of an Amy Lowell Scholarship for Traveling Poets, a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at the MacDowell Arts Colony. Poems from the most recent collection appear or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003ePoem-a-Day\u003c\/i\u003e from the Academy of American Poets (ed. Ada Limón), \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review, American Poetry Review, Tin House, Tupelo Quarterly, Copper Nickel, The Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she also serves as Poetry Editor for the \u003ci\u003eCincinnati Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 123\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725449138239,"sku":"9781960145291","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ba5fa3f4c81d0b86a07ad7cd27173279.webp?v=1765106602","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}