{"product_id":"9781554902378","title":"The Fat Kid","description":"Poetry kills the beautiful people. \u003ccite\u003eThe Fat Kid\u003c\/cite\u003e, Paul Vermeersch’s second full-length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor body image, and low self-esteem. The media’s perfect faces, societal expectations, family concerns, and primitive socialization rituals collide with the already horrendous physical and emotional tribulations of adolescence to drive Calvin Little over the edge. He’ll stop at nothing to become beautiful and weightless, but he must conceal his battle with what the world has come to know as a girl’s disease. Is there redemption in social acceptance, in romantic love, in escaping gravity? Is it enough to learn to love yourself? Calvin’s journey is told in a sequence of poems steeped in both the physical and psychological worlds, in voices that range from the bawdy to the elegiac. In \u003ccite\u003eThe Fat Kid\u003c\/cite\u003e Calvin Little becomes the ideal antihero — for a shallow culture obsessed with thin.","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132617113840,"sku":"9781554902378","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554902378_p0.jpg?v=1763755147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554902378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}