{"product_id":"04-07-26-koo-whitney-any-gesture","title":"Koo, Whitney: Any Gesture","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Lawrence Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eApril 07, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA braided, elegiac journey through death and recovery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAny Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes on loss, anticipatory grief, and the little deaths experienced in the space between mourning and survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collection's four narrative threads speak to a modern, suburban Ophelia; pre-elegize a sister on the brink of suicide; reconcile miscarriage and infertility; and question the proper care for the dead in the face of escalating and dehumanized losses. In these haunting, urgent poems, Whitney Koo interrogates the notion that death is a singular event. Here, grief is illuminated as a living thing, sometimes violent, sometimes hungry, sometimes a \" long \/ drawn sucker punch.\" Through striking, vivid language, Koo reinvents the elegy as something past, present, future-- and we are both witness and mourner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44704545243159,"sku":"9781625571823","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Any-Gesture-Final-Cover.jpg?v=1772745176","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/04-07-26-koo-whitney-any-gesture","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}