num_pages: 80
description: Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.
language: English
title: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
titlecomplete: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
genres: Contemporary, Womens, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 679
publisher: Alice James Books