{"product_id":"learning-courtney-bush","title":"Learning | Courtney Bush","description":"\u003cp\u003e184 pages | Joyland Editions | Paperback | 6.23.26\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sincere, funny, and insightful novella from poet and filmmaker Courtney Bush.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearning\u003c\/em\u003e is a woman’s account of a single Monday working in a progressive New York City day care. The narrator, Courtney, spends her days in The Blue Room guiding her three-year-old students through the early lessons of their lives. Her consciousness flickers between the children—full of generosity, wonder, accidental brilliance, and infinite questions—and her life outside the classroom. While tying shoes and peeling clementines, Courtney returns to grief over the death of a hometown friend; her recent divorce; the hope of a new relationship; her family back in Mississippi; and thoughts on forgiveness, empathy, and her own capacity for cruelty. As the day goes on, a threat from the school director’s ex-boyfriend introduces real danger, tilting the fragile order of the classroom toward chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply felt and bracingly honest, \u003cem\u003eLearning\u003c\/em\u003e enacts the complexity of consciousness, itself a balance of presence, memory, risk-calculation, observation, imagination, and emergency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOURTNEY BUSH\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and filmmaker from Mississippi who lives in New York and works in childcare. She is the author of four books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eEvery Book Is About The Same Thing\u003c\/em\u003e (Newest York Arts Press, 2022), the 2022 National Poetry Series selection \u003cem\u003eI Love Information\u003c\/em\u003e (Milkweed Editions, 2023), A Movie (Lavender Ink, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eThe Lamb With The Talking Scroll\u003c\/em\u003e (b l u s h lit, 2025). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Poetry Project Newsletter, \u003cem\u003eCritical Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eYale Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), and the \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookspace Columbus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51013334401271,"sku":"LRNNGCRTNYBSH","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0435\/6299\/1768\/files\/Learning.png?v=1786392379","url":"https:\/\/bookspacecolumbus.com\/products\/learning-courtney-bush","provider":"Bookspace Columbus","version":"1.0","type":"link"}