{"product_id":"scrap-book-paperback","title":"Scrap Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Martino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScrap Book, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe debut collection from Nick Martino, is a lyric, hybrid exploration of his father's prison sentence and its aftermath--an inherited history marked by silence, fracture, shame, and addiction. Weaving poems with invented forms, familial documents, and fragmented memory, Martino constructs an autoethnographic study of carceral trauma and its reverberations across generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet within a Midwestern family home along the shores of Lake Michigan, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e draws on Marianne Hirsch's theory of postmemory: \"the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their birth but that were nevertheless transmitted to them so deeply.\" Interwoven with poems grounded in a familial archive--such as journal entries and Polaroids of Martino's father in prison--the collection uses the idea of photographic development as a framework for exploring how insight into family history can emerge gradually, like an image appearing in a darkroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its use of ekphrasis and archival fragments, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e creates a textural interior landscape in which the speaker wrestles with how they see themselves and how they are seen by others. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of gathering and repair--a lyrical stitching-together of fragments in search of meaning. In reassembling the family archive, Martino opens a space for readers to do the same: to sift through memory, injury, and ego, and fashion from their own \"scraps\" a deeper understanding of what they carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Martino\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eScrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e (Alice James Books), won the 2024 Alice James Editors' Choice Award and will be published in 2026. His poems have been published in \u003cem\u003eBest New Poets, Narrative, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review, \u003c\/em\u003eamong others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45840369188908,"sku":"9781949944792","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/uOCSeXeUt-9781949944792.webp?v=1784844615","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/scrap-book-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}