{"product_id":"9781936747559","title":"Belle Laide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A whirling, Dionysian poet. . . . Dwyer negotiates brazenly with huge tracts of the human condition. Her leaping imagination will make you laugh out loud. The poems in \u003ci\u003eBelle Laide\u003c\/i\u003e are a rodeo; hang on to your saddle, cowboy.\"—Tony Hoagland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA man with a shovel in his hand \/ is a sexy thing.\u003cbr\u003eI dare myself to bury my dead, \/ to incline towards Cupid's clouds.\u003cbr\u003eI dare myself to love a man all-out. \/ I'm less afraid of the stray hairs of strangers\u003cbr\u003eleft behind in hotel bathtubs; \/ less afraid of the sounds in the wind.\u003cbr\u003eConversing is sometimes useless, \/ like beavers clawing ice –\u003cbr\u003ehoping to erase back into water.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoanne Dominique Dwyer\u003c\/b\u003e earned a BA in creative writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize. Dwyer resides in northern New Mexico where she works as facilitator for the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048553824496,"sku":"9781936747559","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936747559_p0.jpg?v=1763783981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936747559","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}