{"product_id":"9780226848105","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Intimacy Trials by Aja Couchois Duncan","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20\/03\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future.    ? Aja Couchois Duncan's third book of poetry, The Intimacy Trials, explores cycles of violence, loss, and love that arc across history. Composed of intersecting narratives, this collection follows a post-apocalyptic collective of survivors living in a state of gratitude, shame, and awe amid desecrated ecosystems. The present tense of The Intimacy Trials carries the magnitude of a historic past tense filled with land theft, genocide, settler colonialism, and the vicissitudes of romantic love. Couchois Duncan's lyrical, concomitant stories produce a space that holds in balance the complexities of life-joy, despair, intimacy, and irreconcilable grief.    ? In language that is prophetic, lush, and unequivocal, The Intimacy Trials is a loving accountability letter to our past, present, and future selves, holding both our yearning for connection and the remembrance of what has driven us apart.    ? \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367840690549,"sku":"9780226848105","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780226848105","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}