{"product_id":"disconnects-and-other-broken-threads-9781956285529","title":"Disconnects and Other Broken Threads","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems are a meditation on the myriad divisions and inequities we face, both personally and as a society. In \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisconnects and Other Broken Threads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e award-winning poet Emily-Sue Sloane pulls on many of the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and, at times, humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Like a gardener cultivating a bonsai tree, Emily-Sue Sloane takes big, wild concepts like mortality, impotent rage, grief and regret and presents them to us as stark small snapshots of everyday life.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Rorie Kelly, singer\/songwriter, \u003cem\u003eShadow Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \"Sloane sees, feels, and speaks with an honesty that will not accept the glib comfort of pretense....[She] suggests again and again, with rage, regret, humor, irony and anger: This is what it takes to be alive.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Scudder Parker, poet and author of \u003cem\u003eSafe as Lightning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\"Indignant of social injustices, she deconstructs the makeup of contemporary life, giving a thundering voice to the voiceless.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Tonia Leon, bilingual poet and translator, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Beloved Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily-Sue Sloane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956285529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSloane, Emily-Sue:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Emily-Sue Sloane is an award-winning poet who published her first full-length collection, We Are Beach Glass, in 2022. She has won first-place awards from Calling All Writers, the Long Island Fair, Nassau County Poet Laureate Society, Performance Poets Association and Princess Ronkonkoma Productions. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Amethyst Review, The Avocet, Bards Against Hunger, Boston Literary Magazine, Corona, Evening Street Review, Front Porch Review, Long Island Sounds Anthology, Mobius Magazine, MockingHeart Review, Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review, Panoplyzine, The Poeming Pigeon, PoetryBay, The RavensPerch and Shot Glass Journal. Sloane holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Vassar College and lives in Huntington Station, NY, with her wife, singer-songwriter Linda Sussman. In addition to writing, she enjoys reading, yoga and exploring her native Long Island's natural beauty.Learn more at: EmilySueSloane.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Box","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940860723315,"sku":"9.78196E+12","price":19.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ebcfb1a4-61ba-4588-92cd-fc5a31342cfe.jpg?v=1758977392","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/disconnects-and-other-broken-threads-9781956285529","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}