{"product_id":"still-life-with-two-dead-peacocks-and-a-girl-poems","title":"Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems","description":"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle\u003cbr\u003eStill life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder\u003cbr\u003eStill life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeet\u003cbr\u003eStill life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of Revelation\u003cbr\u003eStill life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry Zinger\u003cbr\u003eStill life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the face\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e―from “American Still Lives”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces―details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish―the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O’Keeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that “our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.”","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851072028898,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-7.65-1205","price":33.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_239_k6k9MstRN.jpg?v=1780364290","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/still-life-with-two-dead-peacocks-and-a-girl-poems","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}