{"product_id":"the-garbage-poems","title":"The Garbage Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrade Paperback - New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2026 LAMDBA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCreated entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson's garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expressionof physical pleasure, queerness, and vulnerability. Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeplypolitical nature of joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Swanson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67866156597301,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/1622\/8661\/files\/Screenshot2026-10-31at1.53.35PM.png?v=1793476425","url":"https:\/\/daisychainbook.co\/products\/the-garbage-poems","provider":"Daisy Chain Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}