{"product_id":"the-bodys-alphabet-9780692613825","title":"The Body's Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE BI-BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Home 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Tweedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692613825\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headmistress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40099171860595,"sku":"069261382X","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_784f6d20-840a-4486-8ad8-15c6a5107cf2.jpg?v=1653056382","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-bodys-alphabet-9780692613825","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}