{"product_id":"toxicon-and-arachne-9781472156051b","title":"Toxicon and Arachne","description":"How does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, Toxicon \u0026amp; Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToxicon \u0026amp; Arachne \u003c\/span\u003eis the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42823340326992,"sku":"9781472156051B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781472156051-l.jpg?v=1785891876","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/toxicon-and-arachne-9781472156051b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}