{"product_id":"9781551527970","title":"The Gospel of Breaking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Breaking\u003c\/i\u003e, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who \"speaks things into being,\" Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristmas draws a circle around the things she calls \"holy\": the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jillian Christmas (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Arsenal Pulp Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2020-02-21","offer_id":44150902980863,"sku":"9781551527970","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_86ef4d55-8cc2-4744-be97-d0b1400a6e5d.jpg?v=1700746802","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781551527970","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}