{"product_id":"morality-play","title":"Morality Play (Possession Sound Reading #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMorality Play\u003c\/em\u003e, Lauren Hilger forges a restless path between the impressionable folly of youth and the boundlessness of individual becoming. A motley bildungsroman of fierce imagination, \u003cem\u003eMorality Play \u003c\/em\u003ereveals, and revels in, the paradox inherent in its title, angling for a tender virtue in the sensuousness of words. \"Raised on a fast pencil, a sound expiring,\" Hilger reminds us that \"From the world's first cities, it was always a woman \/ telling the future.\" Like a wild song fluent in, or flung against, awkward self-delusion and constrictive cultural norms, \u003cem\u003eMorality Play \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a vision of womanhood as expansive as lucid dreaming, where all the \"wrong words\" become our \"mother tongue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLauren Hilger\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016). Named a Nadya Aisenberg Fellowin poetry from MacDowell, she has also received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and theVirginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, KenyonReview, Pleiades, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetryeditor for No Tokens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lauren Hilger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712301125917,"sku":"9781949166057","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781949166057.jpg?v=1705254062","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/morality-play","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}