{"product_id":"rise-and-float-poems","title":"Rise and Float","description":"Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nWith the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after \/ month” and “dream \/ after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\n\nThe course of \u003ci\u003eRise and Float\u003c\/i\u003e is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again \/ in people,” another concedes that “defeat \/ sometimes is defeat \/ without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49757498343768,"sku":"9781571315199","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781571315199.jpg?v=1765881012","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rise-and-float-poems","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}