{"product_id":"9781934414330","title":"Beautiful in the Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize. In his foreword he writes, \"I was immediately struck by the boldness of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems. We should be glad that young poets like Keetje Kuipers are making their voices heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language new.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeetje Kuipers\u003c\/b\u003e, a native of the Northwest, earned her BA at Swarthmore College and MFA at the University of Oregon. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she divides her time between Stanford and Missoula, Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Devils Lake Journal:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Keetje Kuipers’ \u003ci\u003eBeautiful in the Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is at once lovely, frank, and haunting. The poems move easily between landscapes, inhabiting the American west, Paris, and New York City with equal ease and yet, they never exploit sympathies of locale for their power. Instead, they rely on nothing but the speaker’s own candor, who is able to speak through such disparate poems as “Bondage Play as Substitue for Prayer” alongside “Waltz of the Midnight Miscarriage,” “Reading Sappho in a Wine Bar,” and “Barn Elegy” with a good spattering of honest-to-goodness sonnets.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ForeWord Reviews:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The poems move like ghosts themselves: disappearing into walls, circling back, appearing for a moment to be captured, then evaporating into thin air. Kuipers pins moments onto the page with the care of an etymologist collecting rare specimens. Her poems are at once visceral and cosmic, “a wave as well as a particle.””\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051296276720,"sku":"9781934414330","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934414330_p0.jpg?v=1763642304","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934414330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}