{"product_id":"good-monster","title":"Good Monster","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiannely Antigua's \u003ci\u003eGood Monster\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection \"voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope,\" chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths--a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's \"soft harm\"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When \"God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave,\" language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua's personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Diannely Antigua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44463246115052,"sku":"9781556596902","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781556596902.jpg?v=1708940568","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/good-monster","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}