{"product_id":"tantrums-in-air","title":"Tantrums in Air","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These poems are stitched with lush, unforeseen textures and unexhausted time. ...They make the ghost of John Keats smile in ecstasy. Raymond Roussel would have kept this collection under his pillow.\" --Lucy Ives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Skillings' highly anticipated second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eTantrums in Air\u003c\/i\u003e, is a wild romp through verbal reality, marking her as one of contemporary poetry's shining stars of humor, insight and edge. It follows her first collection, \u003ci\u003eFort Not\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the Song Cave in 2017, which \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e called a \"fabulously eccentric, hypnotic and hypervigilant debut.\" Skillings writes through various poetic forms. Featuring a ballet in four acts--\"part ghost, part sponge \/ a lump of pure refusal\"--addresses to past loves--\"I circle the circle \/ Of a compact mirror, open\"--and an unconventional treatise on education, \u003ci\u003eTantrums in Air\u003c\/i\u003e is smart and honest, reinventing both what's possible and what we should expect from poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Skillings\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Her recent work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Skillings","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46719457755372,"sku":"9798991298803","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798991298803.jpg?v=1754558762","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/tantrums-in-air","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}