{"product_id":"cadence-paperback-1","title":"Cadence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCadence\u003c\/i\u003e captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others' needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact\/bear witness to.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn't eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and editor living in Columbus, Ohio (where she also runs a literary event series called Paging Columbus). In addition to \u003ci\u003eCadence\u003c\/i\u003e, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Kettle, the Shriek\u003c\/i\u003e (Gold Wake Press) and series coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNew Poetry from the Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e (New American Press). Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The Huffington Post, 32 Poems, Vela, The Journal, and Poetry Daily.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46147555197125,"sku":"9781606353509","price":14.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/O0qPtq7dhZ9781606353509.webp?v=1777507502","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/cadence-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}