{"product_id":"9780988805132","title":"Apocryphal","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"'I was born with a registry for sadness. I am born to be a spectacle' proclaims the fiercely candid speaker of APOCRYPHAL. In this collection, a woman desperately searches through a landscape littered with ambivalence; she peers at us through wreckage left by a god-like, demon-like father who towers over her past with his 'smell like pine, chest you could wrap around a boulder.' This brave collection proudly wears its vulnerabilities in a transformative gesture towards strength, self-exploration, and desire. Basile resists easy labels of victim\/abuser, masculine\/feminine, power\/weakness, want\/repulsion, in order to expose the intricate hidden passageways of sex and power that exist within us all. Her lines and visions carry a shaman like quality, echoing and haunting the reader's psyche long after the book is put down. I still have the speaker's cries trailing me through my days: 'pluck me. pluck me. pluck me. pluck me.'\"—Anne Champion","brand":"Noctuary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010110734576,"sku":"9780988805132","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780988805132_p0.jpg?v=1763893130","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988805132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}