{"product_id":"constellarium","title":"Constellarium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConstellarium \u003c\/em\u003echronicles the author's gender transition from biological male to female and engages the ontological quandaries that arise from this experience. Family history and religious heritage must be reckoned with along the way. In Rice's poems the evolving nature of the self the fluidity of identity and the lasting influence of the past are all held up to the soul's penetrating gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJordan Rice\u003c\/b\u003e is co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eVoices of Transgender Parents\u003c\/i\u003e (Transgress Press 2015). Her poems have been selected for the \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Prize by Aimee Nezhukumatathil the \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Prize by Natasha Trethewey the Yellowwood Poetry Prize from \u003ci\u003eYalobusha Review\u003c\/i\u003e by Beth Anne Fennelley the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize from \u003ci\u003eCrab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e the Milton-Kessler Memorial Prize from \u003ci\u003eHarpur Palate\u003c\/i\u003e and an AWP Intro Journals Award. Her poems have also been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eWriting the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTroubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume V\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (2008 \u0026amp;amp 2011) \u003ci\u003eA Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest of the Web 2009\u003c\/i\u003e. Rice received an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University where she served as Associate Editor for New Issues Poetry \u0026amp;amp Prose and as an Assistant Poetry Editor for \u003ci\u003eThird Coast\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] real and significant discovery. \u003cem\u003eConstellarium\u003c\/em\u003e is a book like no other ingenious and wide ranging.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDon Share\u003c\/strong\u003e Chair of the 2017 Kingsley \u0026amp; Kate Tufts Awards Judges Committee editor of \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Constellarium\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold announcement of a new poetic voice to be reckoned with. These poems make us stare down shame and celebrate transition celebrate the body inside. Jordan Rice does not flinch from what society would have us try to look away from instead she carefully constructs a book in which we are forced to reckon layer by layer with her being. Let us be thankful that such a voice exists that it is brilliant and shattering and here to take us all on her journey.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eFatimah Asghar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jordan Rice's stunning debut a shooting star of a first book if there ever was one may be the most important volume you read this year. Its taut rich language of visceral vulnerability sharply articulates the missing in-between and liminal experiences of consciousness that trans and cis readers alike have never before seen discussed in literature. These poems split open our hearts enlarging the frame of reference and provoking us to reconsider everything about what it means to be a poet a trans woman a trans person. They renew and revive our sense of what it means to be human.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTrace Peterson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jordan Rice's \u003cem\u003eConstellarium\u003c\/em\u003e summons the pleasure and perils of the body the rhetorical and physical damages it can endure. She rescues childhood from memory and makes real again the moments that make or obscure us. Unlike so many contemporary elegies these poems do not chronicle losses with tepid nostalgia they bend time to lead you to griefs at their most unpredictable at the places most poems would look away. Rice's sentences hold more than you thought you could bear. Her masterful control of syntax teaches me what spells already know -- subject object modify modify arrive at the awe that you are knowing too much and refusing sorrow.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Brimhall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526313824531,"sku":"9780990691778","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_14b7412c-3e55-486b-928c-05317a4c19a5.jpg?v=1785850538","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/constellarium","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}