{"product_id":"9780998601205","title":"Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Saul Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity ... [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Derrick Brown, Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The smart, alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerby's Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds is by turns zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, direct. I say voice, because these poems are constantly addressing us, implicating us as readers, as they map a psychological pathway through love, desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. It's a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary, having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. It's a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerby's poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: 'i am everything that i'm not \/ when i am a poem in your hands.'\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Richie Hofmann, Second Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amy Saul-Zerby doesn't know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Bud Smith, F-250\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexandra Naughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086432669936,"sku":"9780998601205","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998601205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}