{"product_id":"wrong-feast-paperback","title":"Wrong Feast - 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\u003eRivka Clifton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Where the erotic meets mortality, where the spirit meets the body, where one dream-meets another--this is the landscape where these poems unfold,\" Kathryn Nuernberger writes o\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ef Rivka Clifton's, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrong Feast.\u003c\/i\u003e Indeed, in Cliftons' second full-length collection, the lyric image, in all its ambiguous potential, flexes the tensions between Capitalism's mass-produced nightmares and the individually strange experiences of death, art, and queerness to depict a world both sumptuous and awry engaging Charles Simic's surrealist question: \"How to think without recourse to abstractions, logic, and categorical postulates.\" Clifton turns the sensory details in her poems until their most mundane aspects become uncanny -- a fish becomes a purse, a dog's head is deified as it is impaled on a fence, a buzzing cellphone is birthed into a crib . . . Page after page, \u003ci\u003eWrong Feast\u003c\/i\u003e models close attention, while fully considering the ambiguities and the possibilities within Clifton's creations. These are not merely poems of action and consequence, but ones of call and response. They will not provide lessons or insights. They are not the prophecy garnered from entrails. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e the entrails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRivka Clifton\u003c\/b\u003e is the transfemme author of \u003ci\u003eMuzzle \u003c\/i\u003e(JackLeg Press, 2025) as well as the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eMOT\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgape\u003c\/i\u003e (Osmanthus Press). Clifton's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51409415995615,"sku":"9781936097722","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ukdyxyl5TJ9781936097722.webp?v=1789617567","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/wrong-feast-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}