{"product_id":"signed-copy-of-hilger-lauren-morality-play","title":"Signed copy of Hilger, Lauren: Morality Play","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry Northwest Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 25, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorality Play\u003c\/em\u003e, Lauren Hilger forges a restless path between the impressionable folly of youth and the boundlessness of individual becoming. A motley bildungsroman of fierce imagination,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorality Play\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ereveals, and revels in, the paradox inherent in its title, angling for a tender virtue in the sensuousness of words. \"Raised on a fast pencil, a sound expiring,\" Hilger reminds us that \"From the world's first cities, it was always a woman \/ telling the future.\" Like a wild song fluent in, or flung against, awkward self-delusion and constrictive cultural norms,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorality Play\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eoffers a vision of womanhood as expansive as lucid dreaming, where all the \"wrong words\" become our \"mother tongue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40539392311319,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_92_1e4eadd5-79a4-4811-ad30-ec1bbfe83a2e.gif?v=1680296578","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/signed-copy-of-hilger-lauren-morality-play","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}