{"product_id":"the-naomi-letters-paperback","title":"The Naomi Letters - 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\u003eRachel Mennies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Mennies embraces the public\/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Naomi Letters\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet mostly over the span of a single year encompassing the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath, their love story unfolds via correspondence, capturing the letters the speaker sends to Naomi--and occasionally Naomi's responses, as filtered through the speaker's retelling. These letter-poems form a braid, first from the use of found texts, next from the speaker's personal observations about her bisexuality, Judaism, and mental illness, and lastly from her testimonies of past experiences. As the speaker discovers she has fallen in love with Naomi, her letters reveal the struggles, joys, and erasures she endures as she becomes reacquainted with her own body following a long period of anxiety and suicidal ideation, working to recover both physically and emotionally as she grows to understand this long-distance love and its stakes--a love held by a woman for a woman, forever at a short, but precarious distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Mennies is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Naomi Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Glad Hand of God Points Backwards\u003c\/i\u003e (Texas Tech University Press, 2014), winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Her poems and essays have been published at \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She serves as the book reviews editor for \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e and the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Mennies currently lives in Chicago, where she works as a writer, editor, and adjunct professor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43778193948735,"sku":"9781950774296","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/the-naomi-letters-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}