{"product_id":"9780299351144-surveille-wisconsin-poetry-series","title":"Surveille","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collection’s queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia, surveilling her body, civic bodies, natural and political landscapes, and the child she longs to bring into—and ultimately protect from—this hostile world. Roach’s poems stare into and through the truth with a blazing intensity.\u003cbr\u003e“It was breeding season, \/ wasn’t it, and they were running from something,” writes Caitlin Roach. \u003ci\u003eSurveille’\u003c\/i\u003es queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia, surveilling her body, civic bodies, natural and political landscapes, and the child she longs to bring into—and ultimately protect from—this hostile world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exploring drone strikes, scorpion eradication, bird behavior, mating deer, ICE detainees, and family relationships, Roach’s poems stare into and through the truth with a blazing intensity. She writes, “Still, I watch \/ the watcher watch me watch \/ the man standing in front of me \/ peering through the crosshatch \/ iron mesh, waiting for bodies \/ beloved he knows he cannot touch \/ to arrive on the other side.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurveille \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about people under various forms of control (self-inflicted and external), about watching and being watched (by oneself, by others, by the state), about mothering, and about the desperate search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly violent and filled with despair.\u003cbr\u003e    Hold the husk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suck each bead out. There\u003cbr\u003e are degrees of loss, speeds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e at which pain travels\u003cbr\u003e through the body. See,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e even the rose neck’s bent. I do not\u003cbr\u003e need to tell you I’m sick. I want to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e be remembered for the absence\u003cbr\u003e my body made in space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Excerpt from “Gardening, the mother gives her daughter a lesson on loss”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57776160080246,"sku":"9780299351144","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34851949.jpg?v=1777502564","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780299351144-surveille-wisconsin-poetry-series","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}