{"product_id":"midsummer-nights-toast-poems-hollis-summers-poetry-prize","title":"Midsummer Night's Toast: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA husband learning to draw, a delivery driver with a baby strapped on, a record in the wrong sleeve. Mamie Morgan's second collection builds its poems from moments like these.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMamie Morgan's second poetry collection, following \u003cem\u003eEveryone I've Danced with Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e (2024)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished in Ohio University Press's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoems of marriage, work, memory and literature; also touches on trauma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 80 pages, Ohio University Press, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the poems carry long, scene-setting titles, and a husband recurs across them: sketching, misattributing songs, talking about anglerfish. Others turn to tipped work and grocery delivery, to an old eighth-grade literature class and a writing workshop, or talk back to Chaucer, the Lady of Shalott and A. E. Housman. The jokes and the anger arrive together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt belongs with readers who like contemporary American poetry that is funny, pointed and rooted in ordinary life, and poems that argue with the books they grew up on. The title is a toast, and the poems raise it to everything in reach: a marriage, a tip jar, an old syllabus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMamie Morgan has published poems and essays in \u003cem\u003eOxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFour Way Review\u003c\/em\u003e and other journals. JackLeg brought out her first collection, \u003cem\u003eEveryone I've Danced with Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2024. She is based in South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854467645589,"sku":"NEW-ING-9780821426685","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_18e07aab-f612-4806-8888-fbdb335354eb.jpg?v=1787902338","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/midsummer-nights-toast-poems-hollis-summers-poetry-prize","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}