{"product_id":"live-ones-9780889776500","title":"Live Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With the prismatic eye of a witch-blessed Alden Nowlan, Sadie McCarney sculpts a hard-won beauty into the passion of her lines.\" --Marilyn Bowering, author of \u003ci\u003eThreshold\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemy of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sadie McCarney's first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada. Ranging from pellet-gunned backyard butterflies to a chorus of encroaching ghosts, \u003ci\u003eLive Ones\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived. Personal myth-making collides with grocery shopping, ancient history turns out to be alive and well in modern-day Milford, Nova Scotia, and the complexities of queer female desire call out to us from beyond the grave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"McCarney's poems hook you with the first line. Her writing crosses between quotidian and fantastical with such ease that you'll climb into the unreal like a child climbs onto a school bus. From folks in an almost normal Black Friday lineup to a surviving child relieving a family home of its contents, each character implicates you in their business.\" --Kathy Mac, author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Misunderstanding\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"McCarney writes with photographic intensity and a lilting ear: bumblebee, lime, chokeweed, toucan, 'the dead, but once or twice removed.' \u003ci\u003eLive Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is a book rife with honesty, vulnerability, and a stark ability to transform even the most minute of objects into dancing flora.\" --Joshua Whitehead, author of \u003ci\u003efull-metal indigiqueer \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Sadie McCarney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189047718171,"sku":"9780889776500","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/NlFKOHIrU1diUnhHcWtRM0hJaWU2QT09.jpg?v=1779980095","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/products\/live-ones-9780889776500","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}