{"product_id":"portrait-of-my-body-as-a-crime-im-still-committing-1","title":"Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing","description":"In its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters’ \u003cem\u003ePortrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing\u003c\/em\u003e returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, \u0026amp; a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, \u0026amp; illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhood’s little violences, \u003cem\u003ePortrait\u003c\/em\u003e haunts the landscape of self-mythology \u0026amp; cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a fracture through the dark, as omnivorous \u0026amp; revelatory today as it was five years ago. “Must I say it to survive?” asks its speaker, balanced on the knife’s edge between confessional \u0026amp; manifesto. “Then I will.\"\r\n\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalist\r\n\r\n2018 Broken River Prize Finalist\r\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Topaz Winters\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePortrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing\u003c\/em\u003e is urgent confession, kisses hungrier than prayer. Beneath the thirst is the threat of forgiveness and the darknesses that call your name. Here is the pleasure of burning alive.\r\n\r\n—Traci Brimhall, \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of the Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eCrackling with the velocities, repetitions, and dangers of want–a voracious heat that seduces, even as it warns. Winters manifests the constructive and destructive energies of desire in language that sparks.\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e—Gabrielle Bates, \u003cem\u003eJudas Goat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eFingers become matchsticks, people become sunlight, and the body becomes punctuation in a collections of love poems that is as much mourning as it is blessing.\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e—Zeina Hashem Beck, \u003cem\u003eO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eThe voices in \u003cem\u003ePortrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing\u003c\/em\u003e confess dangerous desires. They’re unafraid to repeat the words \u003cem\u003elonely\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ewant\u003c\/em\u003e. I trust their warning: \u003cem\u003ebe careful what you worship\u003c\/em\u003e. I needed this book, needed someone to say that some deaths have an end.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e–K. Iver, \u003cem\u003eShort Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Button Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43275928633395,"sku":"978-1-63834-093-5","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0606\/0752\/9011\/files\/1b149979-Winters-POMB-marketingcover.jpg?v=1744752042","url":"https:\/\/buttonbookstore.com\/products\/portrait-of-my-body-as-a-crime-im-still-committing-1","provider":"Button Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}