{"product_id":"we-call-them-beautiful","title":"We Call Them Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Call Them Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis a vibrant debut, filled with emergencies and responses to them. “This, all this,\/is the making of you,” the poet KC Trommer writes, reminding us that what we live through changes us and the stories we tell about our lives. In these poems of love, pleasure, and survival, the poet navigates the cold menace of the Atlantic Ocean, the wild terrors of sex and carnival rides, the bittersweetness of watching her sleeping child’s quiet breathing, all while mapping the power, joy, and dangers of being a woman in the world. Drawing its strength from discovery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe Call Them Beautiful\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores the necessary making and remaking of the self, through art and stories, while looking unflinchingly at the ways that time works on us all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKC Trommer\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eWe Call Them Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e (Diode Editions, 2019), as well as the chapbook \u003cem\u003eThe Hasp Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e (dancing girl press, 2014). A graduate of the MFA program at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and her poem “Fear Not, Mary” won the 2015 \u003cem\u003eFugue Poetry Prize.\u003c\/em\u003e Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eAGNI, The Antioch Review, Blackbird, Octopus, The Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East,\u003c\/em\u003e and in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eResist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and \u003cem\u003eWho Will Speak for America? \u003c\/em\u003e(Temple University Press, 2018). She is the curator of the online audio project \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kctrommer.com\/queensbound\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eQUEENSBOUND.\u003c\/a\u003e You can find her at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kctrommer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ekctrommer.com.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KC Trommer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42245848727634,"sku":"9781939728296","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/theaugusttree.com\/products\/we-call-them-beautiful","provider":"The August Tree","version":"1.0","type":"link"}