{"product_id":"the-alchemy-of-my-mortal-form-paperback","title":"The Alchemy of My Mortal Form - 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\u003eSandy Longhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, poet Sandy Longhorn, winner of the 2014 Louise Bogan award, reveals a landscape of the body-its illness, pain, and medical treatment. Her book, a meditation on veins, arms, wolves, and the soul has a cohesive, chronological order that reads more like a story than a collection. Longhorn's lush colloquial baroque unexpectedly rearranges the language of a fragile, fevered body-handled, medicated, and managed by others- with imagery of a \"cursive spine,\" \"a lucid secret,\" and pairings like \"symptoms\/solstice.\" Divided into sections of \"General Orders,\" \"My Mortal Form,\" and \"Glossary,\" it is an epistolary tale addressed to an unknown, Dear Madame from the perspective of a woman with an undefined illness, in an unspecific place, who has \"hoarded\" her scars and keeps \"accurate account of rashes, wounds \u0026amp; spells of amnesia.\" Longhorn's world-building flourishes with interiority and strangeness. From sickling to refugee, the narrator grapples with predictions, \"traces the outline of\" her escape, and forgives while raw metaphors of a body that is a \"salvaged wreck\" pulse with the strength of resilience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53050746962144,"sku":"9780985529277","price":23.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/meqqN_l9Gq9780985529277.webp?v=1781313236","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-alchemy-of-my-mortal-form-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}