{"product_id":"queer-hagiographies-paperback","title":"Queer Hagiographies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAudra Puchalski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are the saints as you've never seen them: creative, lustful, victorious. After performing miracles, St. Hilda returns to a domestic life with another woman. St. Francis Xavier, thinking about St. Ignatius Loyola, recalls their sacred moments of intimacy. Audra Puchalski conjures the martyred body-\"resonant\/ as the skirt of the bell in the steeple\"-with imagination, respect, wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e-Robin Becker, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Bear Inside Me\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAudra Puchalski is a color theorist disguised as a poet, overlaying sensory hues in defiance of any notion of a primary queer experience. She is playful and studious in turns as all great observers of the sky must be. In \u003ci\u003eQueer Hagiographies, \u003c\/i\u003e someone is always climbing up to get a better view. The landscape is historical and histrionic: the women collapse in unison. A queer body (are all primary bodies queer and altered by value?) is ripped apart and resembled reverently by Puchalski: a virgin statue shattered, diamond-studded thousand-pound collar, a fainting maiden hair fern. There is no one else who writes like this because there is no one else who has the eyes to see, the palette, and the light.\u003cbr\u003e-Gala Mukomolova, author of \u003ci\u003eWithout Protection\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLook, I don't know what a saint is, but having read \u003ci\u003eQueer Hagiographies\u003c\/i\u003e I now know that we are most alive, perhaps, when martyred, snake fed to snake, lyric. These poems confirm how queer this shit has been this whole fucking time: queer and unbelievably detailed, queer and exclamatory, queer and swollen at its leafy nodes. Read this if you're like: who's the best at line breaks, and how can I be more than a little bit turned on by things I've never considered erotic, and what is time, who am I.\u003cbr\u003e-Hannah Ensor, author of \u003ci\u003eLove Dream With Television\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.07 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729387917375,"sku":"9781733534550","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5a2bce2cf8fec0644a58a87935839770.webp?v=1765122012","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/queer-hagiographies-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}