{"product_id":"splashed-things-9781968507039","title":"Splashed Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In my new life, I must learn everything again,\" begins \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. \u003c\/b\u003eWith startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places--the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leigh Lucas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968507039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeigh Lucas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSplashed Things\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the A. Poulin Jr Poetry Prize (Boa Editions, 2026), and \u003ci\u003eLandsickness\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press, 2024), selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. The recipient of residencies from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, her writing can be found in \u003ci\u003eAcademy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Adroit, Smartish Pace\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson. She lives in San Francisco, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya C. Popa \u003c\/b\u003eis most recently the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Levis reading prize from VCU. Her first full-length collection, American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), was a recipient of the North American Book Prize and a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry and her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack's best-selling featured publications. The Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and elsewhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Leigh Lucas \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47897199280285,"sku":"9781968507039","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7bab91b7-0767-483e-b2dd-868b570acaaa.jpg?v=1778003710","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/splashed-things-9781968507039","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}