{"product_id":"sparrow-on-the-rooftop","title":"Sparrow on the Rooftop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exceptionally brave and urgent\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eMoves, shocks and inspires\u003c\/b\u003e’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderful read from an arresting voice\u003c\/b\u003e’ DIANA EVANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Long’s vivid new collection is a study of toxic love, crisis and recovery, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars in poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'At first you eat less because you’re happy, \/ so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer \/ when you just \u003c\/i\u003ecan’t \u003ci\u003ebecause of the sun.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSparrow on the Rooftop \u003c\/i\u003etells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narrator’s uneasy relationship with her body: ‘\u003ci\u003eBlack girls\/\/ don’t get\/ eating disorders.\/ That’s a white girl\/ thing\u003c\/i\u003e.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, \u003ci\u003eSparrow \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gruesome and intimate, alive to the rot, funny' \u003c\/b\u003eSABA SAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Satire and play and unflinching honesty\u003c\/b\u003e' RAYMOND ANTROBUS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56796815327576,"sku":"9781784746582","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784746582.jpg?v=1781244960","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sparrow-on-the-rooftop","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}