{"product_id":"swelling-dark-the-antiheros-journey-paperback","title":"Swelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey - 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\u003eIndira Devos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSwelling Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, Indira Devos lifts the covers and beckons you closer, offering a space at the edge of the pillow where the softest confessions are made. With a voice that is by turns wry, prayerful, painfully earnest, and delightfully self-skeptical, this debut collection drifts like midnight melancholy, with imagery that glows even in half-light. These poems slip between lullabies and warnings, tenderness and shadow, inviting the reader to rest in the in-between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured in sections named for the unruly children of Nyx, goddess of night, the collection becomes a descent toward whatever truth remains in the uneasy spiritual residue left behind when you've outgrown your own myth. Here, dreams bruise. Grief curls against yearning. Identity flickers like a candle refusing to decide whether to burn or go out. Devos gently traces each page like a bare back, with the quiet devastations and small resurrections that shape a life lived in honest darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwelling Dark: The [Anti]hero's Journey\u003c\/em\u003e is a refreshingly, and hauntingly, honest debut-one that refuses salvation, yet still reaches for it in the night, palms open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45860071080133,"sku":"9781069399403","price":23.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/2BeeK-wteu9781069399403.webp?v=1782365304","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/swelling-dark-the-antiheros-journey-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}