Young Thing - Paris Pickup Option

Young Thing
by Grace Bialecki

Note: Purchase this option only if you are picking up your book in Paris or have otherwise arranged with Grace or Alex for special European delivery. Entering an address in Europe should give you a $0 shipping option.

Sometimes when we look back on old photos, it’s hard to recognize the person we once were. Young Thing flips back through an album of memories and re-writes these formative moments into tragicomic prose poems — exploring these times, and the work it takes to leave them behind. By playing with structure, language, and memory, this collection asks if we can unlearn what we were raised to be.

Includes original photographs by Alex Brook Lynn

“Stay up late reading and rereading Bialecki till your pulse beats behind your eyeballs. These poems are flash exorcisms (sometimes flashy) of airports and beds from the turn of the century that ultimately extend fathomless grace.” – Mara Faye Lethem

"In these poems, Bialecki sifts through the wreckage of early adulthood — addiction, romance, exile, return — with a diaristic candor that refuses to flatter or excuse. The collection is a coming-of-age for a generation raised on Cosmopolitan tips, narcotized by pills, and still trying to find a language equal to their hungers. Young Thing makes vivid just how memory itself becomes a kind of narcotic — addictive, corrosive, impossible to quit." – Brandon Harris

A note from the publisher.
Reading Grace’s poetry, I experience an immediate intimacy with its earnest, wry narrator. As she tears open her relationships with a transactional determination to tell her side of the story, I feel like I know exactly who she’s talking about even though I’ve never met them. Not once do these poems need to pause to take their literary turns—the rhymes and imagery run fast to keep up with Grace’s propulsive voice. No overwrought devices are needed when the language is this on point. Plus, the book is funny, gossipy, and glowing with cosmic background nostalgia. I urge you to let this poet of balletic precision take you for a ride through her darker days. You’ll probably feel right at home.