{"product_id":"transgenesis-national-poetry","title":"Transgenesis (National Poetry)","description":"An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories.\nSelected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series, this collection is a scrupulous chronicle of individual and cultural knowledge. In an exceptional debut, Ava Nathaniel Winter challenges our concepts of the beautiful and the sacred, delving not only into the historically marginalized, but also into the chilling subconscious of supremacy. “Let me be clear \/ from this beginning,” she writes, “What I mean by beauty \/ is a terror I have fled from \/ into language.”\nWinter writes with a documentarian’s attention, a poet’s resonance. “I’m trying,” she admits, “to find language for what we do \/ to one another.” From Łódź, Poland, to predominantly white suburban America, from the space shared by queer lovers to antique cabinets filled with Nazi memorabilia, from Talmudic depictions of genderqueer rabbis to archival lynching photos, she regards the tender and the difficult with equal gravity, commemorates the fraught gift of survival.\nAt the heart of this collection—despite its moments of profound darkness—is a new, hard-won holiness. The “earthy aroma of rye” calling up a mother’s baking, her mother’s, hers. Belief in a lover’s lavishing. A chosen future, one where we are “reader, sibling, sister.” If Transgenesis began in fear of beauty, where it lands is this: “turning at last \/ to face her.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1639550046\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1639550046.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Winter, Ava Nathaniel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43419788345405,"sku":"BVV.1639550046.G","price":8.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1639550046-0.jpg?v=1785706889","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/transgenesis-national-poetry","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}