{"product_id":"body-s-alphabet-book-ann-tweedy-9780692613825","title":"The Body's Alphabet","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINER OF THE BI BOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHome is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you, writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no longer available to return to. The result is neither sadness nor nostalgia; it is hard, clean narrative of self-preservation and survival, fitted with unexpected joy. I feel such kinship with these poems, their testament to the strength and determination of women and men who struggle to build life anew, and to find home and happiness in a world of travail. What a blessed space this book is: a home for the wayward soul.\u003cbr\u003e-D. A. Powell, American Poet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnn Tweedy's first book is a brave and honest examination of liminality. In delicate lyrics she confesses to trespass, asking readers to question the boundaries between acts and identity, sexuality and family. \u003ci\u003eThe Body's Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e documents the poet's courage, living openly as a bisexual feminist. Although childhood logic taught her that home is the structure \/ you build when nowhere else will have you, these beautiful poems knit and nest safe haven for a life spent gathering freedom.\u003cbr\u003e-Carol Guess, author of \u003ci\u003eDoll Studies: Forensics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat made me sit down and read \u003ci\u003eThe Body's Alphabet, \u003c\/i\u003e cover to cover, in a single evening? Perhaps it is the way that I know, in Ann Tweedy's poems, I will find the unvarnished truth, and a voice with the drowsed freedom to talk about anything. And I know I will find that truth compassionately rendered, details delicately arranged like the flowers of the dutiful and stubborn forsythia of which she writes. This is a book about finding homes for ourselves-homes for our adult selves, even as complex memories of our childhood homes still live inside us; homes for our bodies; homes in the natural world. Tweedy's vision is both hopeful and wise.\u003cbr\u003e-Katrina Vandenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eAtlas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet Not Unlike the World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50360054186257,"sku":"CIN069261382XG","price":18.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51219143262481,"sku":"NIN9780692613825","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53004455772433,"sku":"CIN069261382XVG","price":12.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/069261382X.jpg?v=1750912885","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/body-s-alphabet-book-ann-tweedy-9780692613825","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}