{"product_id":"rue","title":"Rue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of\u003cem\u003e Big Other\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the speaker—an artist and intellectual—finds herself living through a rocky marriage in a conservative rural state, she maintains her sense of identity by studying the science and folklore of plants historically used for birth control. Her botanical portraits of common herbs like Queen Anne’s lace and pennyroyal are interwoven with lyric biographies of groundbreaking women ecologists whose stories have been left untold in textbooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith equal parts righteous fury and tender wisdom, \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e reassesses the past and recontextualizes the present to tell a story about breaking down, breaking through, and breaking into an honest, authentic expression of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Kathryn Nuernberger\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant meditation on corporeality, history, and what it means to move through the natural and material world—be it a field of pennyroyal or the Dollar General—in a female body. Kathryn Nuernberger’s astonishing poems present an urgent and devastating discourse, via many-layered gut-punch narratives, of the complex ways in which we are connected to one another that together become a powerful reckoning on female strength and desire in the #MeToo era.” \u003cb\u003e—Erika Meitner, author of \u003ci\u003eHoly Moly, Carry Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection lets you open yourself to the possibility of truth stripped bare of the cultural baggage that keeps us from speaking our minds to strangers and friends and lovers alike. Let \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e bewitch you, let it charm you, as rue strung around the neck to keep your vision sharp and deflect from plague and remedy what ails you. Let it locate what ails you, and extract it with whatever needs to be said.” \u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Givhan, author of \u003ci\u003eRosa’s Einstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These long, chattering poems offer so much warmth and intimacy of voice that we hardly notice Kathyrn Nuernberger has talked us straight into confrontations with some of the most sinister aspects of Western modernity. The animal violence underlying bourgeois decorum, the suffocating brutality of our patriarchy, and the gross and beastly truths of our human sexuality are all lined up here. Nuernberger knocks them down one by one with cutting humor, a breadth of erudition and book smarts, and the reassuring potency of her feminism.” \u003cb\u003e—Jaswinder Bolina, author of \u003ci\u003eThe 44th of July\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kathryn Nuernberger’s remarkable collection \u003ci\u003eRue\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it means to know another person, how imagination and action intersect to shape our experiences of love and desire. I adore how her poems show a mind in motion, its obsessions, its honesties. I adore its deft syntax winding us from a love of nature to the nature of love, interrogating what it means to love complicated people in history and in the present—what it is to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e a complicated person. Among the book’s questions are concerns with the female body—who gets to control it and how, who imperils it and under what guise of professionalism or friendship, and what flowers let women control it for themselves.” \u003cb\u003e—Traci Brimhall, author of \u003ci\u003eSaudade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe New Elements\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElements can be named after a scientist,\u003cbr\u003ea mineral, a place or a country, a property,\u003cbr\u003eor a mythological concept. The four new\u003cbr\u003eelements, all of which are synthetic,\u003cbr\u003ewere discovered by slamming lighter nuclei\u003cbr\u003einto each other and tracking the resulting\u003cbr\u003edecay of the radioactive superheavies.\u003cbr\u003eI don’t know about you, but I’m tired\u003cbr\u003eof making things out of other things.\u003cbr\u003eI came out to this bar to read the news\u003cbr\u003ein the company of people falling in love\u003cbr\u003efor only the second or third time. Like\u003cbr\u003eother superheavies that populate the end\u003cbr\u003eof the periodic table, the new ones exist\u003cbr\u003efor only fractions of a second before\u003cbr\u003edissolving into more familiar atomic particles.\u003cbr\u003eIs it true that I’m here hoping a stranger\u003cbr\u003emight take me home? Of course it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31210243653713,"sku":"9781942683971","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Rue_CVR.jpg?v=1579695661","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/rue","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}