{"product_id":"the-natural-hustle-isbn-9780771004674","title":"The Natural Hustle","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing, inventive new collection of poems from the author of \u003ci\u003eRotten Perfect Mouth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes the poem “Bonedog” featured in the film \u003ci\u003eI’m Thinking of Ending Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply attuned to the cadence of life, the poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e offer provocative, intimate snapshots. They explore the bewildering experience of living—precisely locating unexpected truths. Ingenious, original, surprising, here is a one-of-a-kind poetic voice.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Eva H.D. and \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inventive, intelligent, and crackling with energy, the poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Hustle\u003c\/i\u003e invite the reader to pay close attention to those everyday experiences and interactions we might otherwise pass over. They do so in language that is rich with all the energy of the Beats, a brilliant, humming, at times vulgar musicality.” —Pat Lowther Memorial Award Jury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eva H.D. uses an economy of words to suggest an entire world of light and darkness, of longing and pain and beauty. Her poetry reminds me to look at small things: the ripple of water in a pond, the colour of a blue spruce right before sunrise, the quiet despair in the eyes of a person I pass on the street, the texture of the lime green chewing gum I stepped on while looking at the quiet despair in the eyes of that person I passed on the street.” —Charlie Kaufman, author of \u003ci\u003eAntkind\u003c\/i\u003e, writer\/director of \u003ci\u003eSynecdoche, New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eva H.D. [is] a poet of extraordinary merit and ability, and an artist of the first order.” —Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of\u003ci\u003e Homeland Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eva is an extraordinary pirate queen who is restlessly on a quest to swim in the unchartered moments that often are hidden within the habitual monotony of the everyday.” —Jessie BuckleyEVA H.D. is the author of \u003ci\u003eRotten Perfect Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLight Wounds (\u003c\/i\u003ewith photographer Kendall Townend), and the short film \u003ci\u003eJackals \u0026amp; Fireflies\u003c\/i\u003e.Magic Hour, Manhattan, August\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe city’s histamine blush as dusk drips.\u003cbr\u003eWe seek a sportsbar ’cause you think it would\u003cbr\u003ebe nice if I could watch the Jays; all good\u003cbr\u003eI say, as—the towers flush like stung lips—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think walking next to you is heaven.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I say,\u003ci\u003e Look at these buildings\u003c\/i\u003e [and you\u003cbr\u003elook, nod]\u003ci\u003e in the witching light \u003c\/i\u003e[rose flange you\u003cbr\u003eshuffle through]. It’s as if they had been leavened:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esurging tongues stained sweet nectarine, liver.\u003cbr\u003eEvery sportsbar is too loud. It’s okay:\u003cbr\u003eI’d rather watch instead the dying day;\u003cbr\u003emy hometown sold me down the river,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elong ago. The air we breathe in thins,\u003cbr\u003epurpling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s enough the home team wins.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302569496805,"sku":"NP9780771004674","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771004674.jpg?v=1767740637","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-natural-hustle-isbn-9780771004674","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}