{"product_id":"coriolis","title":"Coriolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e A.D. Lauren-Abunassar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by University of Arkansas Press, 2023-09-29\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Coriolis effect—from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar’s hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its title—describes a force that deflects a mass off course. This concept is at play both formally and psychically in \u003ci\u003eCoriolis\u003c\/i\u003e, recognized in Leila Chatti's Foreword as “a book of wanting, of lack, absence, disintegration, opacity, and yearning. . . . ‘If only I could cut out the part of me shaped like wanting,’ writes Lauren-Abunassar. At times, the thing wanted for is love. Other times: family, certainty, belonging, home, safety, wellness, wholeness, or simply for a thing to be clean. Always, these poems reveal the shape of the want by illuminating its outline.” Perhaps the speaker of these poems wants most of all to be \u003ci\u003eseen\u003c\/i\u003e, despite her reflex to deflect when she discloses a shame or trauma, often by depositing the self-revelation within rapid, teeming strings of thought. Yet as much as this speaker may be an introvert in life—“Every time someone says my name it surprises me”; “Because I am lonely, I am always shying away from the mirror”; “Today I woke up feeling \/ like an already said thing”—many of her utterances are exuberantly uninhibited. “Small trees live inside me,” Lauren-Abunassar admits passingly in one poem. And in another: “When I dream of myself, my mouth \/ blooms many hands. They reach in all \/ shapes and directions.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342721990825,"sku":"PHBK-9781682262375","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/26412813482786.jpg?v=1786552225","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/coriolis","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}