{"product_id":"9781771316613","title":"The Garbage Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE LAMDBA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BMO WINTERSET AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson’s garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expression of physical pleasure, queerness, and vulnerability. Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeply political nature of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Swanson (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46941217521922,"sku":"9781771316613","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/0012\/8514\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0143519d-8a55-492b-9c82-49af212ef077.jpg?v=1761857160","url":"https:\/\/www.downtowncomics.ca\/products\/9781771316613","provider":"Downtown Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}