{"product_id":"9781771316613","title":"The Garbage Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURED ON CBC NEWFOUNDLAND MORNING WITH LEIGH ANNE POWER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eCreated entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson’s garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expression of physical pleasure, queerness, and vulnerability. Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeply political nature of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Swanson (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43104531185731,"sku":"9781771316613","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_296fef74-cbc5-47c4-b387-1c65fb20db1c.jpg?v=1775099640","url":"https:\/\/thebookshop613.ca\/products\/9781771316613","provider":"The Bookshop 613","version":"1.0","type":"link"}