{"product_id":"splashed-things","title":"Splashed Things","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSplashed Things\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaya C. Lucas, Leigh; Popa\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781968507039\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBOA Editions Ltd.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e101\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In my new life, I must learn everything again,\" begins \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. \u003c\/b\u003eWith startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places--the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Splashed Things | Maya C. Lucas, Leigh; Popa | Paperback | 9781968507039 | New | Poetry 1734693","offer_id":48855923359896,"sku":"1734693","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61YM_Tf2VFL.jpg?v=1775570737","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/splashed-things","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}