{"product_id":"9780692936511","title":"Love Junky","description":"Aimée Mackovic's sensual, often formal poems look backward to note \"The sun \/ never climbs the same way twice, nor is it meant to,\" and forward to beg \"bruise me, life \/ any way you wish \/ that I might conquer \/ myself and others.\" Here, there are moving tributes to New York and Paris and the poet's family of origin, but mostly these are love poems to the self-\"relax, Mackovic,\" \"my heart me,\" and \"Thank you \/ to my voice, my stomach, my spine...\"-in tender defiance of how young girls so often have the uniqueness and spirit conditioned right out of them. A literal heart is \"malformed\" under a doctor's scalpel,\" a figurative heart has the \"sequin flare\" of the Tin Man's reward, and a beloved childhood doll is a \"silent anchor \/ stringing all your yous together.\" For a speaker who nearly never spoke, Mackovic's poems celebrate existence in rich visceral detail, lay bare her bloody, beating essence to remind us that we're all love junkies of a sort-and what on earth is wrong with that?\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eStacia M. Fleegal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Shape-Shifter and antidote\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Lit City Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49862528827632,"sku":"9780692936511","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692936511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}