{"product_id":"9781935847021","title":"POEMS IN WHICH I AM CHOPPED UP, STEPPED ON, AND SLEEP DEPRIVED","description":"The voice of the speaker in Zack Rearick's debut chapbook is able to be lyrical and conversational, even humorously self-deprecating. It reads as though it was effortless to write, but the poems are dangerous and intimate. The collection is a crescendo, developing to its final poem, \"Nightmare Girl.\" Poems in Which I am Stepped On is confessional poetry in the spirit of a contemporary Plath or even more, Anne Sexton, who the collection makes reference to several times. In the hands of a lesser poet, this connection might read as melodrama or an exercise in self-pity, but this is a snapshot of a poet's construction of self through others. Those others might be ex-girlfriends who were more like \"new sisters\" or characters from film, but the question that seems to be an unspoken through line is \"what if I loved you?\" Ultimately, these poems are equal parts sass and sorrow, boldness and brilliance.","brand":"Etched Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040366182640,"sku":"9781935847021","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935847021_p0.jpg?v=1763656862","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935847021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}