{"product_id":"the-mobius-strip-club-of-grief-isbn-9781941040850","title":"The Mobius Strip Club of Grief","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Bianca Stone is a brilliant transcriber of her generation's emerging pathology and sensibility.\" —John Ashbery\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e Staff Pick and Most Anticipated Book of 2018 at \u003ci\u003eNYLON, Bustle, Autostraddl\u003c\/i\u003ee, and more.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Möbius Strip Club of Grief\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly, with both money and conscience—to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes. I’ll hold your hand in my own,” one ghost says. “I’ll tell you you were good to me.” Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limbo where women run the show and create a space to navigate the difficulties endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother Ruth Stone’s poem “The Mobius Strip of Grief,” Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way to confront and investigate complicated family relationships in the hopes of breaking the never-ending cycle of grief.\n\"A feminist counterpart to \u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e. Poet Bianca Stone’s new collection submerges the reader in burlesque purgatory. Depicting a contemporary Hades, Stone revivifies ghosts of women poets long past and eulogizes their fierce genius.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] brilliant, wildly imaginative mediation on grief and loss and coping with being human and then not being at all.\"—\u003cb\u003eNYLON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] collection that features a bravely vulnerable beating heart hidden beneath layers of irony and clever misdirection. Stone is the child of her muses, Sexton and Emily Dickinson, and it is an odd but delightful union.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fantastically unsettling and sparks a serious meditation on grief and family, from a distinctly feminine perspective. . . . [Stone] populates her poems with characters that range from Emily Dickinson to her grandmother, and the result is the feeling that we are witnessing a soul’s intimate reckoning with life. Many poets have attempted to imagine the afterlife, and Stone’s addition to the tradition disrupts it in the best way.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Staff Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meditative and darkly entertaining, vivid and visceral, a little bit out-of-control, \u003ci\u003eThe Möbius Strip Club of Grief\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with tired bodies, bodies with scars, other women poets, and members of Stone’s own family — including a grandmother who herself is being grieved. This is a poetry collection like few you’ll come across.\" —\u003cb\u003eBustle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A little bit \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, but maybe even more so the deliciously devilish \u003ci\u003eNo Exit\u003c\/i\u003e, Stone’s book is a strange, entertaining journey into an underground world where poor souls are 'clinging to our tragedies, finding our favorite face.' . . . You’ve never quite seen a poetic party like this.\"—\u003cb\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Möbius Strip Club of Grief\u003c\/i\u003e showcases a talent who is bold, original and highly attuned to human suffering, though the collection is not without moments of humor. Stone's wild and ingenious exhibitionism exposes the psyche's innermost sensitivities—a literary strip club for the soul.\" —\u003cb\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stone follows grief—and its many manifestations—through a salacious, serpentine strip-club underworld . . . sharply observed, wryly playful, and fiercely defiant.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the most intriguing of the upcoming releases . . . The Möbius strip is easy to construct but for those who enter such a space, escape is impossible—a situation readers may find themselves in when they start reading these stellar poems.\"—\u003cb\u003eSignature Reads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bianca Stone’s lyricism outright rejects the Wordsworthian definition, 'emotion recollected in tranquility'; there is nothing tranquil about these poems or the state in which they were written. Grief, loss, and disappointment are transferred to a landscape of wild objects and associations. We are propelled along by abrupt changes in perspective and dimension. Bianca Stone is a brilliant transcriber of her generation’s emerging pathology and sensibility.\"—\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bianca Stone\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Möbius Strip Club of Grief\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House, 2018), \u003ci\u003eSomeone Else’s Wedding Vows\u003c\/i\u003e (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014), and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Comics from the Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (Pleiades Press, 2016). She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233714581733,"sku":"NP9781941040850","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781941040850.jpg?v=1767740541","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-mobius-strip-club-of-grief-isbn-9781941040850","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}