{"product_id":"wet-specimen-paperback","title":"Wet Specimen - 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\u003eAbigail Raley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I wish I could be little again reading in my mother's lap, watching the koi make their circuitous routes, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003epumping the heart of the pond as if stuffed and hot with blood.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbigail Raley's Wet Specimen is a poetry collection dedicated to celebrating sensuality, tenderness, and the rewilding of the self. In her debut collection, Raley curates a portrait of desire that moves through ecoscapes, homescapes, and genderscapes. Lush with surreal metaphors and fiercely devoted to a corporeal lexicon, these poems echo slick humor while protesting gendered power dynamics. Through prose poems, free verse, and pantoums, Wet Specimen interrogates the primal capacity to want, to hate, and to love. Raley's inventive poems resist rigidity in favor of play, eroticism, and embodied discovery. Attentive to sickness, animals, love, and gender, Wet Specimen revels in a profound wonder of flesh, pus, and lust, encouraging the merging of self and body with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47941597659357,"sku":"9781951979904","price":23.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/6ZnhpOQ-v49781951979904.webp?v=1779249580","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/wet-specimen-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}