{"product_id":"wasp-queen-by-claudia-cortese","title":"Cortese, Claudia: Wasp Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWasp Queen \u003c\/em\u003eby Claudia Cortese (Black Lawrence Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 15, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003ePoetry. Women's Studies. \"Claudia Cortese has given to Lucy what Anne Carson has given to Geryon: a life as desperate and fraught as our own, which is to say, a human rendition of the poetic potential. Here, memory is a potent point of inner excavation, where the threshold of danger and love are often one beam, a beam in which Cortese navigates with harrowingly deft eyes and ears, where Lucy, like so many of us citizens of earth and flesh, 'shines like a gun.' WASP QUEEN possesses something permanent and searing at its core: the will to live, even thrive, despite the shackles of childhood, despite even oneself. I finished this book only to read it all over again, finding and losing myself, gladly, at every turn.\" —Ocean Vuong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337271590935,"sku":"9781625579607","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_9419cda7-f608-4c5f-832c-ddf6b9e39b17.jpg?v=1586745926","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wasp-queen-by-claudia-cortese","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}