{"product_id":"intimacy-trials","title":"Intimacy Trials","description":"\u003cb\u003eA post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Aja Couchois Duncan’s third book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacy Trials\u003c\/i\u003e, explores cycles of violence, loss, and love that arc across history. Composed of intersecting narratives, this collection follows a post-apocalyptic collective of survivors living in a state of gratitude, shame, and awe amid desecrated ecosystems. The present tense of \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacy Trials \u003c\/i\u003ecarries the magnitude of a historic past tense filled with land theft, genocide, settler colonialism, and the vicissitudes of romantic love. Couchois Duncan’s lyrical, concomitant stories produce a space that holds in balance the complexities of life—joy, despair, intimacy, and irreconcilable grief.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In language that is prophetic, lush, and unequivocal, \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacy Trials \u003c\/i\u003eis a loving accountability letter to our past, present, and future selves, holding both our yearning for connection and the remembrance of what has driven us apart.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56107097882968,"sku":"9780226848105","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226848105_c957c697-e820-4c39-a8bb-5bef8547b678.jpg?v=1781082928","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/intimacy-trials","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}