{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-fruit-poems-paperback","title":"A Brief History of Fruit: Poems - 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\u003eKimberly Quiogue Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kimberly Quiogue Andrews's award-winning full-length debut, \u003cem\u003eA Brief History of Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e, we are shuttled between the United States and the Philippines in the search for a sense of geographical and racial belonging. Driven by a restless need to interrogate the familial, environmental, and political forces that shape the self, these poems are both sensual and cerebral: full of \"the beautiful science,\" as she puts it, of \"naming: trees of one thing, then another, then yet another.\" Colonization, class dynamics, an abiding loneliness, and a place's titular fruit--tiny Filipino limes, the frozen berries of rural America--all serve as focal markers in a book that insists that we hold life's whole fragrant pollination in our hands and look directly at it, bruises and all. Throughout, these searching, fiercely intelligent and formally virtuosic poems offer us a vital new perspective on biracial identity and the meaning of home, one that asks us again and again: \"what does it mean, really, to live in a country?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet, literary critic, and the author of \u003cem\u003eBETWEEN\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2017 New Women's Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press. A two-time Academy of American Poets prize winner and a Pushcart nominee, her poems have appeared widely, including in \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest, Grist, West Branch, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere, and have been selected for inclusion in\u003cem\u003e Bettering American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eASAP\/J\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College, and you can find her on Twitter at @kqandrews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 99\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757056864477,"sku":"9781629221618","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/DyvOBBQewo9781629221618.webp?v=1789894283","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-brief-history-of-fruit-poems-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}