{"product_id":"rathburn-chelsea-broken-houpb","title":"[07\/29\/26] Rathburn, Chelsea: Broken Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eLSU Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: July 29, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2026 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBroken Houses, \u003c\/i\u003eher fourth collection of poetry, Chelsea Rathburn offers a powerful meditation on home and the foundations--both physical and metaphorical, stable and unstable--that shape us. Drawing upon historical records, contemporary art, family photographs, and memory, Rathburn explores the settlement of the city of Miami, as well as her father's placement in a California foster home, to tell larger stories of dispossession and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time when the American Dream seems all the more unreachable, the poems in \u003ci\u003eBroken Houses\u003c\/i\u003e urge us to hold tight to one another and build connections where we can.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45195764924439,"sku":"9780807187272","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91SjSaPJuxL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780865621","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/rathburn-chelsea-broken-houpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}