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Trying to make sense of a world where even language is 'a danger,' Currin's poems reject the old storylines in favor of a vigilant awareness, and wonder what might happen if we 'change the feared penmanship' and embrace a narrative that empowers everyone.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50697575465233,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697577398545,"sku":"NGR9781552452301","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668761342225,"sku":"NLS9781552452301","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552452301.jpg?v=1750958005"},{"product_id":"hagiography-book-jen-currin-9781552451977","title":"Hagiography","description":"Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography -- only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds ...This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. 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Currin’s poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism.    These poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as “thrilling,” “emotionally evocative,” and “revelatory.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51029380137233,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51029382889745,"sku":"NIN9781487011628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52685116932369,"sku":"NLS9781487011628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1487011628.jpg?v=1770894633"},{"product_id":"disembark-book-jen-currin-9781487011895","title":"Disembark","description":"Winner, 2025 Fred Kerner Book Award   Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.   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In modes both realist and fantastic, the profound and eloquent stories in Disembark provide a glimpse into the unexpected, offering insight into the ways we relate in this world and in worlds beyond.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51029595455761,"sku":"NIN9781487011895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52688533225745,"sku":"NLS9781487011895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/148701189X.jpg?v=1770373670"},{"product_id":"school-book-jen-currin-9781552452899","title":"School","description":"The surreal meets the political in Currin's new collection, global in scope and intimate in purpose.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52670284955921,"sku":"NLS9781552452899","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781552452899.jpg?v=1762289424"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jen-currin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}