{"product_id":"how-to-be-better-by-being-worse-paperback","title":"How to Be Better by Being Worse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Jannise\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRicard Blanco\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and Finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Richard Blanco as winner of the 2019 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Justin Jannise turns the self-help manual on its head in \u003ci\u003eHow to be Better by Being Worse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems flout, subvert, question, and ignore the rules with exploratory energy. Queer experiences are celebrated--from crushing on long-dead, sad-eyed poets to drag divas dancing at Halloween parties--gender constructs are questioned, and familial transgressions are laid bare for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelightfully modulating between flippant, sincere, and back again, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Better by Being Worse\u003c\/i\u003e freely indulges in harmless wickedness as its speaker grows in self-awareness, slowly learning to let go of inherited shame while continuing to seek self-forgiveness for the harms he has caused the outside world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustin Jannise grew up in rural southeast Texas. As a first-generation college student, he attended Yale University, where he won the 2009 Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for Poetry. He worked as a freelance pop culture writer in New York City before moving to Iowa to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The University of Iowa awarded him a Teaching-Writing Fellowship in 2013 and named him the Provost's Visiting Writer in Poetry in 2014. Now finishing his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, Justin served a two-year term as Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e. He frequently teaches community writing workshops at Inprint, Grackle \u0026amp; Grackle, and Writespace. As part of Writers in the Schools, he has led classrooms at Field Elementary School, the High School for Law and Justice, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital. He is the recipient of both the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize and the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry. In 2019, his poems appeared in both \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e and Best of the Net, and \u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e nominated his poem \"Leather Jacket\" for a Pushcart Prize. His writing has also been published by \u003ci\u003eHobart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLana Turner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSplit Lip Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334708170989,"sku":"9781950774234","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/okPKnG4Rav9781950774234.webp?v=1785020403","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/how-to-be-better-by-being-worse-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}