{"product_id":"the-death-spiral-paperback","title":"The Death Spiral - 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\u003eSarah Rose Giragosian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe death spiral is a courtship ritual among raptors. Locking talons in mid-air, they cartwheel toward earth, risking death until determining when (or if) to let go. If they survive the stunt, they validate the fitness of their potential mate. If not, the test can end in a fatal collision with the earth. Think of it as the ultimate first date. Written during the years of the Trump era, \u003ci\u003eThe Death Spiral\u003c\/i\u003e is a conceit for our fraught political times and the sense of precarity that the poet experienced as a queer woman married to an immigrant. Like the eagles in their precarious death dance, we are mutually dependent upon one another, entangled, and yet survival in this age, the Anthropocene, may be a practice of letting go, learning a position to one another that is less rapacious. \u003ci\u003eThe Death Spiral\u003c\/i\u003e is part-love letter, part-death notice to the earth and its creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eQueer Fish\u003c\/i\u003e, a winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize (Dream Horse Press, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eThe Death Spiral\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). In 2023, the University of Akron Press released the craft anthology, \u003ci\u003eMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which she co-edited Virginia Konchan. \u003ci\u003eMother Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e, a co-winner of the Halcyon Prize, is forthcoming from Middle Creek Press. Sarah's writing has appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eOrion, Ecotone, Tin House, Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She teaches at the University at Albany-SUNY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50466877341933,"sku":"9781625578143","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-death-spiral-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}