{"product_id":"bianca-9781954245440","title":"Bianca","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"I thought I forgave you,\" Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in \u003ci\u003eBianca\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Then I took root and became \/ someone's mother.\" Leigh's gripping second collection introduces us to a woman managing marriage, motherhood, and mental illness as her childhood abuse resurfaces in the light of \"this honeyed life.\" Leigh strives to reconcile the disconnect between her past and her present as she confronts the inherited violence mired in the body's history. As she \"choose[s] to be tender to [her] child--a choice \/ [her] mangled brain makes each day,\" memories arise, asking the mother in her to tend, also, to the girl she once was. Thus, we meet her manic alter ego, whose history becomes the gospel of Bianca: \"We all called her Bianca. My fever, my havoc, my tilt.\" These poems recover and reconsider Leigh's girlhood and young adulthood with the added context of PTSD and Bipolar Disorder. They document the labyrinth of a woman breaking free from the cycle of abuse, moving from anger to grief, from self-doubt to self-acceptance. Bianca is ultimately the testimony of one woman's daily recommitment to this life. To living. \"I expected to die much younger than I am now,\" Leigh writes, in awe of the strangeness of now, of \"every quiet and colossal joy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-8301272\"\u003eEugenia Leigh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954245440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954245440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005060\"\u003eAmerican | Asian American \u0026amp; Pacific Islander\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023010\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet living in New York and the author of one previous collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBlood, Sparrows and Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Debulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e. Poems from \u003ci\u003eBianca\u003c\/i\u003e were awarded \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e's Bess Hokin Prize and selected for the \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. A Kundiman fellow, Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as a poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Adroit Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44476658712813,"sku":"9781954245440","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3cb5ff5a-7714-4907-b200-e0e32815acd2.jpg?v=1700688636","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/bianca-9781954245440","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}