{"product_id":"odessa-9781571314567","title":"Odessa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Patricia Kirkpatrick’s \u003cem\u003eOdessa\u003c\/em\u003e—selected by Peter Campion as the winner of the 2012 Lindquist \u0026amp; Vennum Prize for Poetry—fighting for her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tumor presses against her amygdalae, the “emotional core of the self,” central to the process of memory. And so a dreamlike reality emerges from these poems, emotionally charged but void of sentimentality. Kirkpatrick’s Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” is a refuge at once real and imagined, resembling simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a god-inhabited city. We see a field filled with unidentifiable birds and the unknowable. A post-surgery body that can be “broken \/ like a piece of bread.” Ceres and Hades locked in a custody battle for Persephone—and Persephone’s fruit, “the color of bloodstain.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhostly, lyrical, and bearing shades of classical heroism, \u003cem\u003eOdessa\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Kirkpatrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284510781691,"sku":"9781571314567","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571314567_aebdce4f-7731-4f05-bdc8-b4c8ce60647f.jpg?v=1772484922","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/odessa-9781571314567","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}