{"product_id":"andrea-carter-figeater-9781957062259","title":"Figeater","description":"Winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. \n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Andrea Carter's powerful Figeater, \"we follow the\/road, the terrible invention\/\/ of hope\" until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is \"a constant\/ hurricane, grasping, expanding,\/ feeling for a purchase, stability,\/ a place to collapse, fall apart, re-\/accumulate.\" What abundant, soulful, heartwork.-Tomás Q. Morín\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Figeater, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-\"I am a moving violation\" says the speaker-trapped with \"no one to release me from my glass coffin.\" There is emptiness and hunger here-\"No one will know\/\/the hunger of us.\" The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: \"I looked more like\/an adult even at ten, and my body\/\/belonged to my stepfather.\" In a key poem, \"The Welder,\" the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-\"the daughter is [...]\/the conjoining joint, testament\/\/between her mother\/and the man her mother sends\/her daughter to\/\/in order to make him happy.\" Figeater is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought. -Donna Spruijt-Metz","brand":"Gunpowder Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53761751744854,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/andrea-carter-figeater-9781957062259","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}