{"product_id":"ellis-write-aboupb","title":"Ellis, Elaina M: Write About an Empty Birdcage","description":"\u003cp\u003eWrite Bloody, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eJune 15, 2011\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eWith an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817267441687,"sku":"9781935904281","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/7824470-L.jpg?v=1703283096","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/ellis-write-aboupb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}