{"product_id":"9780819578112","title":"The Trailhead","description":"“I'm learning to allow for visions,” the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that place. A “conversion narrative” of sorts, the book examines the self as a “burned-over district,” individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book’s sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. \"Sacralization\/is when things become holy, also\/when vertebrae fuse,\" the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling—a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice—and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043888185584,"sku":"9780819578112","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780819578112_p0.jpg?v=1763750212","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780819578112","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}