{"product_id":"good-monster-paperback","title":"Good Monster - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiannely Antigua\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiannely Antigua's \u003ci\u003eGood Monster\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection \"voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope,\" chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths--a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's \"soft harm\"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When \"God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave,\" language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua's personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiannely Antigua\u003c\/b\u003e (she\/her) is a Dominican American poet and educator born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection, \u003cem\u003eUgly Music\u003c\/em\u003e, won a 2020 Whiting Award and the Pamet River Prize. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and the winner of fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eBest of the Net Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She currently serves as the poet laureate of Portsmouth, NH, and is the youngest and first person of color to hold the title. As host of the Bread \u0026amp; Poetry podcast, she aims to make poetry more accessible to the community, interviewing poets and non-poets alike about what poetry means to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.87 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42153391259783,"sku":"9781556596902","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/077b3a0d7d46853febdf4b680379a185.webp?v=1733221253","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/good-monster-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}