{"product_id":"in-the-antarctic-circle-paperback","title":"In the Antarctic Circle - 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\u003eDennis James Sweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn hybrid narrative prose poems, \u003ci\u003eIn the Antarctic Circle\u003c\/i\u003e follows two characters as they weave a life among the frigid, white landscape of the southern continent. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not the Antarctic of polar expeditions or scientific discovery. This is the Antarctica of domestic disharmony, of love amid loneliness, where two people encounter themselves at the end of the world. Harpoons, escape plans, seal meat, and endless ice populate this world of distant Antarctic coordinates. Where pages are intentionally left blank, something new emerges: the fullness of emptiness, the frightening textures of snow on a continent that is filled to the brim with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis James Sweeney\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eIn the Antarctic Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and was featured as a Debut Poetry Book of 2021 in \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eYou're the Woods Too\u003c\/i\u003e, his second book, was a Small Press Distribution bestseller and a finalist for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Prize. Most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Rolodex Happenings\u003c\/i\u003e won the Stillhouse Press Novella Prize. Formerly a Small Press Editor at\u003ci\u003e Entropy\u003c\/i\u003e and Assistant Editor at \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, he has an MFA from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Denver. Originally from Cincinnati, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches at Amherst College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47581850534109,"sku":"9781938769726","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/r9iwwp3Ork9781938769726.webp?v=1773566203","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/in-the-antarctic-circle-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}