{"product_id":"thing-is-isbn-9780771005558","title":"Thing Is","description":"\u003cb\u003eA startling and hip collection of poetry from a dual American\/Canadian citizen who's already making waves on the literary scene.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzannah Showler's bracing, intense second collection is equal parts cultural critique and phenomenological investigation. Building on the enlightened skepticism of her much-praised debut, \u003ci\u003eThing Is\u003c\/i\u003e puts the hashtag age through some much-needed paces. Witty, cutting, heartbroken, and cautiously hopeful, these poems are really about \"aboutness,\" about what it means to be alive right now. They also nimbly advance the longstanding poetic argument for the value of considered attention: \"What follows from \/ what you know is \/ not the same thing \/ as knowledge. Even \/ when you get it right.\"\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE VINE AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThing Is\u003c\/i\u003e, poet Suzannah Showler writes beautiful, witty, heartbreaking poems that seek answers to impossible questions. These are metaphysical poems, each its own investigation and exploration.” —Mary MacDonald, \u003ci\u003ePique \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Suzannah Showler:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Showler’s work is evidence of a lively and flourishing imagination.” —\u003ci\u003eToronto Star \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Showler’s] navigation between the funny and the broken is both startling and captivating, and makes us wonder whether the two are more similar than we might think.” —\u003ci\u003eContemporary Verse 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her poems are distinguished by their cultural awareness . . . without losing sight of the human ethos that defines modern living.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spiked with snarky wit and punctuated by slivers of tenuous hope. The writing is tight, poignant and accessible.” —\u003ci\u003eMaisonneuve \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bold, self-assured voice, but Showler proves she has more than earned it. This is the real thing.” —\u003ci\u003eLemon Hound\u003c\/i\u003eSUZANNAH SHOWLER is the author of \u003ci\u003eMost Dramatic Ever, \u003c\/i\u003ea book of cultural criticism about \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelor \u003c\/i\u003e(ECW, 2018), and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThing Is \u003c\/i\u003e(McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eFailure to Thrive \u003c\/i\u003e(ECW, 2014). You can read her work in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Slate, The Walrus, Hazlitt,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. She is the poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/i\u003e. She also does contingent labour teaching creative writing. She currently lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ\/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations with her partner, Andrew Battershill.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303996674277,"sku":"NP9780771005558","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771005558.jpg?v=1767742436","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/thing-is-isbn-9780771005558","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}