{"product_id":"the-decadent-movement-poems-9780822968368","title":"The Decadent Movement: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Decadent Movement \u003c\/i\u003eis a book-length suite of poems that spins backward in time through the early days of parenthood and the preceding nine months of pregnancy. Beginning a year after childbirth in the harried throes of marriage and parenting, the collection proceeds toward its finale \"Minus Time,\" which marvels at death's near-identical twin - that infinite period of nonexistence that precedes each new life. From the opening poem \"Afterword,\" each dated poem slides backward in time, with the poem \"Hinge\" at the manuscript's midpoint spoken from the moment of childbirth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unraveling of a predicament by playing it in reverse - \"Muybridged \/ out so anyone could see, framed, a woman \/ running for her life\" - allows for rigorously honest accounting of mixed feelings about motherhood and its accompanying physical and psychic changes, detached from the readymade tropes of the \"pregnancy plot.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decadent Movement \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about the fear of loss (of sexual personhood, bodily self-determination, the ability to write, and the license to be headlong and volatile). Yet it is also about the need to insist on new terms of engagement with those we love, new languages of willfulness and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Kolbe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 6.07w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822968368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Kolbe\u003c\/b\u003e is a physician, medical ethicist, and writer. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series and in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Conjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eKeeping House: Six Longer Love Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest winner.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eShe teaches and practices medicine in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Laura Kolbe \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48969086337181,"sku":"9780822968368","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_a89686d3-f8b2-4ac6-8fc4-fd18f32ae786.jpg?v=1790753755","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-decadent-movement-poems-9780822968368","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}