{"product_id":"hardly-creatures-isbn-9781963108248","title":"Hardly Creatures","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner—Chicago Review of Books “CHIRBy” Award for Poetry \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling. . . . An extraordinary document in care, mutual aid, and access.”—Claudia Rankine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative and unforgettable debut poetry collection about the joys and complexities of the disability community from 2024 Ruth Lilly fellow Rob Macaisa Colgate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and innovative, Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eHardly Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e, takes the form—visually and metaphorically—of an accessible art museum. Through nine sections that act as gallery rooms, the book shepherds the reader through the radiance and mess of the disability community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of the collection is an exploration and recognition of access intimacy. Marked with universal access symbols to guide the way, poems mimic sensory rooms, tactile replicas, benches for resting, and more; “the body of a poem” itself is reimagined through formal experimentation, as abecedarians are scrambled out of order and sestinas are pressurized into new sequences. These poems also play with pop culture allusions, social media posts, and the infinite possibilities within queer love and deep friendships. With lyrical clarity and attention to language, \u003ci\u003eHardly Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e reaches out and offers inventive, heartfelt insights for all readers, and celebrates the disability community through the lens of a visionary new voice in poetry.\"Exciting, sometimes shocking...[an] astonishing first book.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Innovative…. an impressive titan of formalism and radical inclusion.\"—\u003cb\u003eElectric Literature, A Best Poetry Collection of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Brilliant and innovative. . . . shepherds the reader through the radiance and mess of the disability community.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Nonforming Authors in 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The joyfully inventive debut honors the disabled community…. Colgate’s generous and perceptive poems make an impact.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Expands the limits of the poetic form…. From poems that mimic sensory rooms and scrambled abecedarians to inventive plays on social media posts and culture allusions, \u003ci\u003eHardly Creatures \u003c\/i\u003eshows readers the limitless possibilities poetry has to reimagine and reach new heights.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wide-ranging in tone and topic, these poems lead by example, showing us how the world could be, how a book could be.... More than poetry, it is possibility. Colgate shows us the potential of art that not only allows for us, but actively welcomes us into its fold.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Remember that you are meant to be here. \/ You must allow yourself to exist \/ in whatever way you have arrived to the space' This was an invitation I received upon entering Rob Macaisa Colgate’s \u003ci\u003eHardly Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection unlike any I have ever encountered before. Part primer, part activated art space, part personal\/community inventory, part lyric collaboration with mental illness—this book activates new zones between disability studies and poetry, allowing readers spaces for rest, recognition, and reimagination inside its dazzling and varied forms. An extraordinary document in care, mutual aid, and access that positions the self (all selves) as existing inside a network of interdependence.\" —\u003cb\u003eClaudia Rankine, author of \u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning and tender . . . full of vulnerability and humor and lyrical play.\"—\u003cb\u003eJane Wong, author of \u003ci\u003eMeet Me Tonight in Atlantic City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant . . . I felt my entire world shift, soften, begin to glow.\"—\u003cb\u003eChen Chen, author of \u003ci\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Macaisa Colgate\u003c\/b\u003e is a disabled, \u003ci\u003ebakla\u003c\/i\u003e, Filipino American poet from Evanston, Illinois. He received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from UT Austin. Poems from this collection appear or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSewanee Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Margins\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright scholar, Rob currently serves as the managing poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eFoglifter\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233215820005,"sku":"NP9781963108248","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781963108248.jpg?v=1767728713","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hardly-creatures-isbn-9781963108248","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}