{"title":"Lisa Allen","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"its-what-ive-got-left-paperback","title":"It's What I've Got Left - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's What I've Got Left cuts through inheritance, womanhood, and survival with an attentiveness to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat endures-and bites: memory lodged in the body, belief revised but not erased, love that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erefuses to loosen its grip. In poems that braid lyric intensity with narrative pressure, these pages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrace how harm and devotion spool forward and back across generations, testing what love will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand will not allow. Prose poems such as \"Dear Third Born Child, I Promise I'm Trying, Love, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMom\" and the searing \"Notes for My Daughter As She Prepares for Her Most Public Sexual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssault\" unfold through instruction, footnote, and reckoning, holding rage and tenderness in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esame breath. Elsewhere, moments of hard-won clarity flare unexpectedly: \"let the water make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe world a conch,\" a line that listens for vastness without judgment. Allen writes poems that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estay-echoing, spiraled, alive to what cannot be unlearned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDzvinia Orlowsky, author of Those Absences Now Closest and Bad Harvest\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378750193887,"sku":"9781957755700","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oZPimaQFP99781957755700.webp?v=1789261648"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lisa-allen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}