{"product_id":"providence","title":"Providence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeartworm Press is proud to announce \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, a new collection of poems by Eric Paul.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly two decades after first being published by Heartworm Press, Eric Paul returns with \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, a powerful new collection that serves as both a literary homecoming and a milestone in the press's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNamed for both the city that shaped him and the mysterious forces that shape a life, \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e explores family history, addiction, fatherhood, memory, survival, and the strange humor required to endure them. Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Paul transforms the people, neighborhoods, bars, funeral homes, airports, and anxieties of New England into poems that are devastating, hilarious, surreal, and deeply human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the collection, fathers become myths, ghosts wander interstate highways, lawnmowers speak, children teach impossible lessons, and ordinary moments open into something larger and more mysterious. Family history becomes folklore. Survival becomes myth. The familiar world reveals itself to be stranger, funnier, and more haunted than we ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, Paul has occupied a singular place in underground literature. As both poet and lyricist, he has built a reputation for work that is ferocious, funny, emotionally devastating, and impossible to mistake for anyone else's. Drawing equally from poetry, punk, autobiography, dark comedy, and American mythology, his work uncovers the extraordinary hidden within ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Heartworm Press, the publication carries special significance. Eric Paul was first published by the press when it was founded in 2008. Seventeen years and more than one hundred titles later, \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, published as Heartworm Press #139, brings the story back to where it began. The reunion between press and author feels fitting. Both have evolved, endured, and remained fiercely committed to singular voices outside the literary mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Paul is the author of \u003cem\u003eI Offered Myself As The Sea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Popular Place To Explode\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreensboro Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOcean State Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBooth\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He serves as Poetry Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Bryant Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, teaches in the Arts \u0026amp; Creative Industries program at Bryant University, and is the vocalist and lyricist for Psychic Graveyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul delivers his most intimate and accomplished collection to date. Drawing from family history, addiction, fatherhood, grief, and the absurdities of everyday survival, these poems move effortlessly between the devastating and the hilarious, the surreal and the painfully real. The result is a collection that feels both deeply personal and startlingly universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePOEMS FOR THOSE WHO SURVIVED THEIR ORIGIN STORY.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Paul's most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst copies include signed bookplates.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heartworm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44085000470662,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0223\/5597\/files\/EricPaul-Providence_ef23d975-8ae3-4c5e-833a-70a276d237ac.jpg?v=1782186301","url":"https:\/\/shop.theheartworm.com\/products\/providence","provider":"Heartworm Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}