{"product_id":"9781556594465","title":"Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lindsay's delight in imaginary and unknown worlds, her compulsion to write exactly what she doesn't know, removes her poems completely from the tired confessional anecdotalism of so much narrative poetry.\"—\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sarah Lindsay's niche in contemporary poetry might be likened to that of Joseph Cornell's in modern art. Anything might turn up in a Cornell box: a stuffed bird, images snipped from old engravings, dice, corks, a broken watch—anything. Like Cornell, Lindsay also creates tiny, complete worlds that operate according to their own particular laws.\"—\u003ci\u003eParnassus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth collection of poetry, National Book Award finalist and Lannan Fellowship winner Sarah Lindsay presents a lyric menagerie of bizarrely imagined personae and historic figures revealing their long-held secrets, alongside surprising scientific subjects and discoveries layered into quirky, dark-edged, sometimes macabre, always intimate and graceful poems. Imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected, and the challenging, Lindsay's poems are alive with wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when asked the obvious question about the title, you can say, \"A 'bone-eating snotflower' is the inelegant slang for the worm-like creature, \u003ci\u003eOsedax mucofloris\u003c\/i\u003e, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Without Warning\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop leaned on a table, it cracked,both fell to the floor. A gesturegone sadly awry. This was close to factand quickly became symbolic, bound to occurin Florida, where she was surroundedby rotting abundance and greedy insects. One moment a laughing smile, a graceful handalighting on solid furniture, a casual shift of weight, the next, undignified splayed legs. The shell of the tableproved to be stuffed with termite eggs . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College and holds a MFA from UNC Greensboro. Her first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003ePrimate Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She currently works as a copy editor for Pace Communications, and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057379164400,"sku":"9781556594465","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594465_p0.jpg?v=1763756143","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594465","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}