{"product_id":"9780889713031","title":"For Your Safety Please Hold On","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves—several from this collection have received award attention, including: \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e's 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2012 Far Horizon's Award for Poetry and an Editor's Choice Award in \u003ci\u003eARC Poetry Magazine'\u003c\/i\u003es 2012 Poem of the Year Contest. They have also been shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe New Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e's 2013 Occasional Verse Contest, longlisted for CBC's 2013 Canada Writes Poetry Contest and have appeared in literary publications across North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering expectations—\"She sits. She sips her bright pink fingers. \/ She slips into smart short haircuts, yes, \/ she does so, and does herself up just so.\" While her pin prick meditations on contemporary adulthood suggest a yearning for personal meaning and purpose on a larger scale—\"I still wander, sometimes, \/ my coat closing the world out of my body, with pockets \/ full of garbage, with my slender steady want. I still \/ make the bed and at bedtime unmake it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe irrepressible energy of the poems in \u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e, paired with their complex balancing act between light and dark, humour and melancholy, innocence and danger, make this collection an extraordinary first offering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033898402032,"sku":"9780889713031","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889713031_p0.jpg?v=1772498436","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889713031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}