{"product_id":"9781934103173","title":"A Beautiful Name for a Girl","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Human identity testing itself: are the speakers of these poems mother, teacher, creative artist--or are they merely bones to be sorted and juggled? The ramifications of identity (\"we'd know... the translation \/ into mother to be exaltation. Murder, also\") leap up sharply in the book's central poem, \"Snuff Ballet,\" in which one speaker, a dancer, is tested by inquisitors who may be a board from whom she seeks a grant. But perhaps these voices, which quickly become intimate and judgmental (\"When was the last time you had sex?\"), are merely criticism internalized, part of the \"one-woman show.\"","brand":"Ahsahta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044081221872,"sku":"9781934103173","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934103173","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}