{"product_id":"the-garbage-poems","title":"The Garbage Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Garbage Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnna Swanson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781771316613\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBrick Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\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\u003e144\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2026 LAMDBA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BMO WINTERSET AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PAT LOWTHER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson's garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expression of physical pleasure, queerness, and vulnerability. Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeply political nature of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"The Garbage Poems | Anna Swanson | Paperback | 9781771316613 | New | Poetry 1764962","offer_id":49741815644312,"sku":"1764962","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71nGplyfZ0L.jpg?v=1787673669","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-garbage-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}