{"product_id":"our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible","title":"Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInspired by the speaker’s experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, \u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles humanity’s daily fight for survival in a world that’s bent on destroying itself.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLiving in landscapes of ruin and ruination, memory and problematic nostalgia, this collection\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eplumbs the depths of disruption, decay, and how we go on when the world stops cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHere, Rebecca Lindenberg centers love, self-acceptance, and intimacy as incomparable balms across great geographical and psychological distances, and asks the reader to do the impossible: hope.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Brimming with muscular lines that careen from vibrant lyrics to vulnerable narratives, these exquisite poems are what this world desperately needs. Lindenberg's powerful poetic skills blaze on every page, and at its core, this book is driven by a brilliant beating heart opening again and again. I love this book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Given the lateness of the hour, it is long past the time when Apocalypse ought intimately to possess an idiom of its own. Like everything intimate, this will take its shape from a human body pronounced upon the body of the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOur Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eproposes a beautifully reckless incarnation—suddenly idiomatic, fleshed and tireless. With the authority of love offered and accepted, Lindenberg confides Apocalypse to our common, perishing world.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Donald Revell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrought-Adapted Vine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo My Insulin Pump\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eYou’re part of my anatomy now – port,\u003cbr\u003ethey call it. Into the flesh of my belly,\u003cbr\u003eI insert a needle. Needle comes out, but\u003cbr\u003ea tiny plastic capillary remains, affixed\u003cbr\u003eto a button. Buoy on the surface of me.\u003cbr\u003eBlack, about the size of an old pager,\u003cbr\u003eI wear you clipped to my bra like a spy.\u003cbr\u003eWhen delivering insulin, I can hear and feel\u003cbr\u003ea faint click-whir, click-whir near my heart,\u003cbr\u003ea cat’s purr.  Fine plastic tubing runs from\u003cbr\u003emy pump to my button. Somehow\u003cbr\u003eumbilical. It unclasps with a quick twist\u003cbr\u003eif I want a bath. Or to fuck unobstructed.\u003cbr\u003eIt would not be exaggerating to say you\u003cbr\u003e(weight of a deck of cards, cost of a small car)\u003cbr\u003eare literally keeping me alive – but I’ll just say\u003cbr\u003eyou, splendid little engine, are the only part\u003cbr\u003eof me I never find it difficult to love.\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46519462756581,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":46519462789349,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/9781960145291_FC.jpg?v=1713292737","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/our-splendid-failure-to-do-the-impossible","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}