{"title":"Elizabeth Metzger","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Metzger's work delves into the complexities of human experience with a keen sensitivity to emotion and nuance. Her writing often explores themes of identity, memory, and the subtle tensions that shape our lives, offering readers a profound engagement with contemporary arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough evocative storytelling and a lyrical style, Metzger invites reflection on the intersections between personal history and larger cultural narratives. Her books resonate with those who appreciate thoughtful, introspective literature that illuminates the intricacies of our shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lying-in-by-elizabeth-metzger-9781639550104","title":"Lying In","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"All my life all I've wanted was to be myself \/ and someone else,\" writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self—into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. New loss haunts new life, and life becomes \"one or two lives.\" The door is more valuable than the prize behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith ambivalence as well as deep feeling, Metzger wonders how a single body can be expected to hold both immense joy and immense mourning, profound longing and creeping numbness, when one so often overtakes the other. She plunges into the darkness inside—of the gloomy room, the inner body, the afterlife and the pre-language mind—and sends back \"a searchlight across the underworld,\" Eurydice in search of herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAching and contemplative, \u003cem\u003eLying In\u003c\/em\u003e is an exquisite portrait of an in-between time—and of the person who emerges on the other side. \"Isn't it obvious how we've changed?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596799983852,"sku":"9781639550104","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781639550104-lying-in.jpg?v=1777942647"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/elizabeth-metzger.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}