{"product_id":"9780998761091","title":"Shopgirls","description":"Marissa Higgins' \u003ci\u003eShopgirls\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the grotesque with unexpected delight. Higgins' precise syllables and subtle alliteration will make you hungry. Flesh, bone, and expectation, \u003ci\u003eShopgirls\u003c\/i\u003e is unafraid of breaking and lingering in the resulting pain. You are about to witness the work of a highly skilled surgeon.\u003cp\u003e-Danielle Evennou, author of \u003ci\u003eDifficult Trick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does one negotiate self-preservation in the throes of desire? How do you defamiliarize the familiar that you may understand the self better? Early in Marissa Higgins' chapbook, \u003ci\u003eShopgirls,\u003c\/i\u003e the speaker reveals, \"I've learned how to preserve\/ what remains,\" and these poems acutely distill the exchange of power dynamics as enrapture defines its own terms. \"Don't you know\/ what it is to work for love?\" we are asked-and haven't \"My attempts to please\" also been \"slow\" at times, haven't my fingers reached for something just out of reach, haven't I \"[wiggled]\/ like a panicked thing, smaller\/than a deer or God\" in my wantings? With concision-and precision-Higgins refuses to shy away from the body in desire, leaving the reader wanting also to be \"even closer to what is\/ and was pleasure.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Flower Conroy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Awful Suicidal Swans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShopgirls,\u003c\/i\u003e Marissa Higgins creates a world that explores human insecurity by juxtaposing fashion and science. The \"anatomy\" of her poems \"bulging beneath denim\" \"wound[s] in ways [Higgins] does not know how to heal.\" It is tight poetry that \"takes [you] from behind\" and forces \"bruise[s] to blossom.\" It is an emotionally charged volume that pushes our perceptions about capitalism and our bodies to new levels-a genuine vivisection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jessica Hylton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Scissor Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headmistress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50008393187568,"sku":"9780998761091","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998761091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}