{"product_id":"the-keys-to-the-jail","title":"The Keys to the Jail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Keys to the Jail continues Elizabeth Bishop’s tradition of the art of losing, but delves deeper, asking the question of who is to blame for all we’ve lost. Keetje Kuipers’s new \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecollection calls us to reexamine the harsh words of failed love, the aging of a once-beautiful body, and our own voracious desires. Kuipers is a poet of daring leaps and unflinching observations, whose richly-textured lyrics travel from Montana’s great wildernesses to the ocean-fogged streets of San Francisco as they search out the heart that’s lost its way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of Us Can't Live Like This\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe might be unhappy for the rest\u003cbr\u003eof our lives. It\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es not inconceivable -- \u003cbr\u003ethe skiff of dust on your hands, the slow\u003cbr\u003esmelting of years. How would I know\u003cbr\u003eif you call me\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003edarling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein your sleep?\u003cbr\u003eA promise is a train lying in a field\u003cbr\u003efor decades: we take pictures of the weeds\u003cbr\u003ethat flower around it and talk about the days\u003cbr\u003ewhen it arrived with a whistle of steam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e“Keetje Kuipers’s poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e“Quietly ferocious, \u003cem\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\u003c\/em\u003e is full of love and after-love poems that come clad with ‘bell[ies] of rusted steel.’ These poems are not afraid to feel, not afraid of desire or beauty or the inevitability of their respective undoings, not afraid ‘to eat the filter on the cigarette.’ Yet there is such generosity here in the ‘repenned’ landscape—out among the wolves and ghosts, the rodeo queens and Dairy Queens—that we are allowed to glean from hunger, a form of contentment, and still welcome the cavernous desire for more.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Elyse Fenton \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e About the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eKeetje Kuipers’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful in the Mouth\u003c\/em\u003e, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Kuipers holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. Her poetry appears widely in such venues as \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Indiana Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJubilat\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Oregon Literary Arts. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Kuipers is currently an assistant professor at Auburn University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eISBN: 9781938160264\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420284805,"sku":"9781938160264","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_KEYS_TO.jpg?v=1527683595","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-keys-to-the-jail","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}