{"product_id":"9781934200773","title":"House of Deer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like the Oppen she takes as her epigraph, Sasha Steensen's is a poetry that feels magically made via both subtraction and building. With language as lush as Hopkins' and then as small and weird as Niedecker's, Steensen tells a story, or alights in and out of a story, all her own. It's an American story, too, with all the bloodiness and experiment that such a thing requires.\"—Maggie Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSasha Steensen's third volume is a lyric inquiry into a personal history of the back-to-the-land idealism of the 1970s, with its promises and failings, naturalism gone awry, and journeys into the worlds of addiction, recovery, and, ultimately, family. \"If family is a body, learn its anatomy,\" Steensen writes early in the book, immediately before upending all our expectations and giving us new thoughts to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe family bought a rural plot \u0026amp; planted a garden.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe family formed thoughts.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWithin these thoughts, eggs hatched, animals were born, little wars formed. Each thought said unspeakable things to the other thoughts.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAs you know, unspoken thoughts rot.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSasha Steensen\u003c\/b\u003e teaches poetry workshops, literature courses, letterpress printing, and bookmaking at Colorado State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Method\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eA Magic Book\u003c\/i\u003e (Alberta Prize, 2004), and chapbooks including \u003ci\u003eA History of the Human Family\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Future of an Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003ecorrespondence\u003c\/i\u003e (with Gordon Hadfield, 2004). Steensen is also co-editor of Bonfire Press, and she serves as one of the poetry editors for \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039631884528,"sku":"9781934200773","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200773_p0.jpg?v=1763641166","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}