{"product_id":"9780822981060","title":"Boy with Thorn","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, \u003ci\u003eBoy with Thorn\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art and myth, to desire, the practice of lynching and Hurricane Katrina. Always at its center, though, is the poet himself—confessing a double song of pleasure and inevitable pain.","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081164112112,"sku":"9780822981060","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822981060_p0.jpg?v=1763750299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822981060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}