{"product_id":"broken-lines-paperback-1","title":"Broken Lines - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSugar Le Fae\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath, love, and poetry-not exactly in that order. These are Sugar le Fae's concerns in \u003cem\u003eBroken Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, a retrospective of Sugar's poetry over two decades. Roughly chronological, this collection begins with a sequence of \"nightstands,\" queer love poems, the first of which won a contest in 2005, Sugar's first publication. Over the next twenty years, Sugar has continued to publish hundreds of poems, translations, and essays in over two dozen literary publications, winning another contest in 2015 and publishing a verse memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Mustard Seed\u003c\/em\u003e (April Gloaming) in 2023. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroken Lines\u003c\/em\u003e's second section explores \u003cem\u003ears poetica\u003c\/em\u003e, 'the art of poetry, ' musing on a range of poetic icons and images in the Western tradition, including Eliot's \"famous clairvoyante,\" an elegy to a lost pen, two Latin translations, and the fantastical cats of Cleopatra, Keats, and Dickinson. Section three yields to gloomier, post-Covid realities, wrestling with time and inevitability-though not without hard, surviving zircons of hope. And like a postmodern concept album, \u003cem\u003eBroken Lines\u003c\/em\u003e even includes a few B-sides at the end, deep cuts that didn't fit anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLine breaks are one of poetry's great innovations-structure makers \/ and breakers, able to stack meanings, subvert expectations, and glean music from plain language. The line-breaks in \u003cem\u003eBroken Lines \u003c\/em\u003eare no exception, sharp and clean, in turn humorous or heartbreaking. As a visual effect, Sugar's edges are restless but restrained, jagged but dynamic, seeking resonance. These poems hum on the page, crystalline and finely carved. Like a hem or highway, these broken lines lead somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42356336853127,"sku":"9781608643349","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b25ce9b567c253d9170ec12990e5f696.webp?v=1740211391","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/broken-lines-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}