{"product_id":"impossible-bottle-1","title":"Impossible Bottle","description":"This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers - what she calls the \"\"impossible bottle.\"\" With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of the instinct to seek meaning in metaphor, she confronts the indignities, fears, and moments of grace in a struggle with cancer. Her poems forge unlikely connections between the present reality and memories of the past, such as an MRI scan conjuring up images of a June expedition through a tunnel under a Maryland mountain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRooted equally in the sterility of the hospital and the vitality of the natural world, \u003ci\u003eImpossible Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e mines the trappings of illness, showing how disease attempts to rob us of our humanity even as it reminds us of our mortality.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56086254059864,"sku":"9780807160831","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807160831.jpg?v=1778679966","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/impossible-bottle-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}