{"product_id":"every-form-of-ruin-poems-9780822966913","title":"Every Form of Ruin: Poems","description":"A rebuttal to Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eOresteia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Form of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e posits the Erinyes' fury as righteous, understanding Clytemnestra's rageful response to loss, and refusing Iphigenia's relegation to a footnoted sacrifice. A fierce and darkly funny examination of anger, these lyrical poems push back against silencing by playing witness to a world where the experiences of women, nonbinary, and femme-identifying people are too often ignored, their responses dismissed as hysterical. These poems are also investigations into the loneliness of midlife; the search for one's own self when that self has given its life to service. \u003ci\u003eEvery Form of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e counters our culture's erasure of women and resists the categorizations of maiden, mother, crone by blurring those distinctions through the creation of voices that are moved by rage and resistance. \u003cb\u003eBLACK THUMB\u003c\/b\u003e The dogwood was threatening to swallow the back garden's light, so I borrowed a chainsaw and gas. Its last berries a memory of red, the fruit bitter, tiny angry mangos in the mouth of its killer. Nights my son chooses his father to read him into silence, I practice not loving anything. Less like learning than remembering. As a child, I studied how to be a child. I was given a doll to care for but could never remember its name. I left her face down everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Adair-Hodges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitt Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822966913","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713481150601,"sku":"9780822966913","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e1807361-8857-4cce-9dca-d64d0e23fda7.jpg?v=1719613072","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/every-form-of-ruin-poems-9780822966913","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}