{"product_id":"desire-museum","title":"Desire Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Lambda Award for Bisexual Poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConsumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire Museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDivided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDesire Museum \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003etouches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. These poems trace the pleasures and pitfalls of sex, the anxieties of motherhood, and the ramifications of interpersonal, sociopolitical, and environmental trauma in women’s lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn these pages, Deulen holds up a candle to desire itself, questioning what it means to recognize and embrace one's desires, or what it might mean to let them go. In conversation with Hopkins, Keats, Crane, and Lorca, Deulen seamlessly weaves memories into dreamscapes and blurs the human and natural worlds. With love, wonder, grief, and awe,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Desire Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e shows us that to live alongside desire is to refuse to be contained: “I refuse meaning [ ] the first sunrise reiterates the last.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eDesire Museum \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Desire Museum is all that is delicious about poetry—small windows through which the fresh \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebreath of self-knowledge blows through, the mouthfeel of deft language, the eros of travel. But \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethis collection is also astonishing in how it builds mythologies around dissolution, ardor, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eallusion. I have loved wandering in the halls of this book’s illuminating galleries and Deulen’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edeft curation.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Carmen Giménez, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe Recorder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Drawing on sources from classical mythology to particle physics, these poems render lost loves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand lost letters, abandoned places and selves. Beasts abound—a fox, a tiger, an octopus, a cow. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere are sleepless nights and regretful kisses, the voices of Keats and Hopkins, Lorca, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCrane. All along, Deulen confronts ardor’s ghosts, interrogating the myriad ways hunger and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eheartbreak get transmuted into art and memory. Sometimes funny, always smart, endlessly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003einventive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDesire Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a restless and intoxicating book!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bruce Snider, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFruit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Danielle Cadena Deulen’s luminous collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Desire Museum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e assembles and remixes the past, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003econstructing not pristine displays under glass to be admired at a distance, but dynamic exhibits \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethat shimmer beneath our hands. How many selves can one life contain? What remains after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egreat loss? At once dreamlike and insistently clear, these poems call across time and space, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003einviting former lovers, canonical poets, and the ghosts of former selves to commingle in an ever-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eshifting present. This is a book to read and remember.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chelsea Rathburn, Georgia Poet Laureate, author of \u003cem\u003eStill Life with Mother and Knife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45961586245861,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":45961586278629,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/DesireMuseum_CVR_RGB_LG.jpg?v=1679934400","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/desire-museum","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}