{"product_id":"twinzilla-9780915380909","title":"Twinzilla","description":"With her irreverent wordplay, Hagerty digs to the roots of language itself, showing the unbreakable links between our inner and outer worlds, and between the world that is \"real\" and the worlds we can imagine. Her fearless alter-ego, Twinzilla, reawakens in even the most jaded post-modern reader all the powerful fizz our planet needs. 2013 Judge Jeanne Larsen describes falling in love with this book: \"The poems in Twinzilla are smart, teasing, dead-serious, marked by keen intelligence and inventive language. Hagerty takes us into a world where 'metaphysics are like candy.' Her narratives leap, inventive and rewarding, embracing motherhood and daughter-hood, scrutinizing questions of meaning and embodiment, weaving from the elegiac to the wryly joyful, showing forth the ways we shadow our own selves. Oh, this is good stuff.\" Poet Sandra Beasley describes this unique poetry collection: \"Time to take Doggerel for a walk,\" says TWINZILLA, unleashing this ebullient collection from South Carolina poet Barbara H. G. Hagerty. Hagerty introduces us to three essential forces: Eros, Thanatos, and Twinzilla, the duality that complicates our sense of self as life progresses. Who once was temptation, becomes comfort, a \"knight-in-shining anorak.\" Who once was daughter, becomes mother--\"I was entered and exited, \/ I exuded and extruded, \/ earth moved through me, \/ film, magma, flesh\"--and, later, becomes child again, to care for a dying parent. Poignant stories are balanced with flights of wordplay and taxonomy, examining the strangeness of lumps, slugs, doorbells and dead ringers. \"All is collage, to be continued,\" declares \"Quantum Twinzilla.\" Readers will not want this conversation to end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara G. S. Hagerty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Word Works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780915380909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHagerty, Barbara G. S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Barbara G.S. Hagerty is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Guest House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMotherfish\u003c\/em\u003e, both from Finishing Line Press. Awarded the 2010-12 Fellowship in Poetry from the South Carolina Arts Commission, she is a member of the Long Table Poets, a workshop led by Richard Garcia. She also co-coordinates the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Reading Series, held early each summer in Charleston, and is a board member of The Poetry Society of South Carolina. She has worked as a photographer, curator, journalist, essayist, and teacher of poetry and creative non-fiction, and has published several non-fiction books. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Word Works","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40908701302899,"sku":"9.78092E+12","price":22.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fbe9b31d-02e8-46e6-934d-d00acb15acc2.jpg?v=1691067219","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/twinzilla-9780915380909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}