{"product_id":"pitiful-poems","title":"Pitiful: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Poem Begins Where Bulimia Endsor Maybe, Just Maybe, When It Started. Wherethe Differential Diagnosis Is Confusedby Decades Of SelfMade Violence. Poverty,Colonialism, God, All Prisms That Will Shatterone Day, If Not NowPart SelfInterrogation, Part Confession, Part Hospital Diary, The Intense, Heartbreakingly Frank Poems In Brandi BirdS Second Collection Detail The AuthorS Ongoing Struggles With Eating Disorders And Depression, Conditions That Disproportionately Afflict Indigenous Girls, Women, And TwoSpirited Persons. These Challenging Poems Investigate The Relationship Between Sexuality And Eating Disorders As Well As How The Voyeurism Of Religion (The Idea Of Being Eternally Watched) Intersects With Both Of Those Spheres. They Also Raise Questions About Body Shaming And Body SovereigntyA Failed Sovereignty In This Case, As Sovereignty Itself Is A Communal Concept. In The Tradition Of Poets Like Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points) And Hannah Green (Xanax Cowboy), The Poems In Pitiful Also Lay Bare The Way Patriarchy, Medical Sexism, And Bigotry Have Not Only Sabotaged The Treatment Of Such Conditions But Often Make Them Worse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House Of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957062615285,"sku":"DADAX1487014082","price":25.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/61wawxiqmkL.jpg?v=1775547270","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/pitiful-poems","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}