{"product_id":"wendys","title":"Wendys","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWendys\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAllison Benis White\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781945588426\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFour Way Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"Because it is easier to miss a stranger \/ with your mother's name,\" Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that still lingers after the death of a sixth Wendy, the author's long-absent mother. A series of epistolary poems addressed to Wendy O. Williams becomes an occasion for the speaker to eulogize as well as reflect on the singer's life and eventual suicide: \"What kind of love is death, I'm asking?\" In the section devoted to Wendy Torrance, the fictional wife from The Shining who was bludgeoned by her husband, the speaker muses on the inadequacy of language to resolve or even contain grief in the wake of trauma: \"A book is a coffin. Hoarsely. A white sheet draped over the cage of being.\" Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Wendys\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of silences and space in which tenderness and violence exist in exquisite tension. \"If to speak is to die,\" White writes in \"Ignis Fatuus,\" \"I will whisper.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Wendys | Allison Benis White | Quality | 9781945588426 | New | Poetry 1208662","offer_id":50550537224450,"sku":"1208662","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41EuuUCV1JL.jpg?v=1790468367","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/wendys","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}