{"product_id":"9780692604755","title":"Tiger Laughs When You Push","description":"\u003ci\u003eTiger laughs when you push \/ She already has dirt with her donut \/ and knows the cage is cardboard.\u003c\/i\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eTiger Laughs When You Push\u003c\/i\u003e are full of wit, lyric ingenuity, and imaginative acuteness. \u003ci\u003eHeartcracked, I need cereal lowjack \/ fruit GPS \/ to get out from under \/ the cheesy cheers.\u003c\/i\u003e Ruth Lehrer's virtuosity for the use of detail, for image, for sound - is unique and a great great gift to encounter. These poems are insightful and provocative. They are marvelous.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Emily Pettit, author of \u003ci\u003eGoat in the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a mother who sends her daughter a \"napkin of rotted teeth\" to a parrot that squawks in \"lilting Lithuanian\" to Eden who \"squatted menstrual blood paintings\" the poems in \u003ci\u003eTiger Laughs When You Push\u003c\/i\u003e constantly shock the reader with original imagery, startling language, keen observation, and bigness of heart. And if that wasn't enough, \u003ci\u003edayenu,\u003c\/i\u003e the lines are scattered with a bagel here, a bialy there, cheese blintzes, hot pastrami, applesauce, sour cream and more. These poems made my mouth water and left me hungry for more of Ruth Lehrer's fine poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Lesléa Newman, author of \u003ci\u003eI Carry My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headmistress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060913553648,"sku":"9780692604755","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692604755_p0.jpg?v=1763621535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692604755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}