{"product_id":"the-sweating-sickness-poems-9780822967385","title":"The Sweating Sickness: Poems","description":"Rebecca Lehmann's \u003ci\u003eThe Sweating Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e contains wide-ranging topics--the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth--all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-\u003ci\u003eRoe \u003c\/i\u003eAmerica, and how private and public ghosts can come back to haunt us. Surrealist, maximalist, formal, and with an ear to the underworld, \u003ci\u003eThe Sweating Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e spins the reader into an eco-fabulist wonderland, where anything can happen, and does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17070513\"\u003eRebecca Lehmann\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822967385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822967383\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-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Lehmann \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eRinger\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eBetween the Crackups\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has been featured in the\u003ci\u003e American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eThreepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNPR's the\u003ci\u003e Slowdown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand other venues. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Beheading Game\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOriginally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and is the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eCouplet Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48456056275181,"sku":"9780822967385","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_b0b55a77-c414-417d-a26e-ec3c33d06736.jpg?v=1753545087","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-sweating-sickness-poems-9780822967385","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}