{"product_id":"2940157713553","title":"Fair Day in an Ancient Town","description":"\"Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorf's work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Aliki Barnstone, author of \u003ci\u003eBright Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's April now,\u003c\/i\u003e complains Allendorf's speaker, \u003ci\u003eand still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eFair Day in An Ancient Town\u003c\/i\u003e subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitman's darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasies--or the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M\u0026amp;Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. \u003ci\u003eO, the way his mouth confounded me \/ and folded on my mouth there in the fold,\u003c\/i\u003e slyly sings one of Allendorf's shepherd's songs, \u003ci\u003eO, the glory of his hairy arms, \/ the way they lit my eyes a little then.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deep--and then find a way to be alone under the covers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speak--and continue speaking--genuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Scott Cairns, author of \u003ci\u003eIdiot Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Brain Mill Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158296019184,"sku":"2940157713553","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157713553_p0.jpg?v=1764101339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157713553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}