{"product_id":"9781934200728","title":"the meatgirl whatever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Poetry Series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Kristin Hatch's debut collection ooze with the viscus of shattered reality. Bodily, almost animalistic, they flirt with apocalypse, accumulate like diary entries from a madman's kitchen where knife blades hover near the jugular. \"This is a documentary,\" writes K. Silem Mohammad, who selected this book for the National Poetry Series, \"or these poems are promotional cartoon avatars, installations of a longer, live-action Emmy-winning series in which glee and melancholy, revulsion and beauty, lyric and satire, living flesh and chopped-up meat combine in sinister gurlesque fantasia.\" A terrifying and necessary first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"annunciation\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ebent, he talked me through all my tied, big like i was kansas or a diagram sketched with arrows pointing to my special parts with \"trick\" and \"murder\" spelled out in clean, legible type. his documentary voice uncled at my ankles.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003emy legs folded back for him \u0026amp; he'd say my mouth was a hauntbag. he could take the willows from my lungs. i hated himbut i begged for it in the underhang \u0026amp; the bad would bang into bird shapes \u0026amp; every time my ugly became less ugly, ours. for a while, the mirrors were too thick with it to see through.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eafter he left, i picked at my at my toes \u0026amp; tried to get ancient. stungdumb, \u0026amp; gnarled against that autumn, i sat barefoot to imagine his arm hair—all of it shuttering like wheat in a stormfield—featherlight little marys—a legless army, aghast at god \u0026amp; beginning to show.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eKristin Hatch\u003c\/b\u003e has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in various journals including \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e . Her chapbook, \u003ci\u003ethrough the hour glass\u003c\/i\u003e , is forthcoming from CutBank and is about the soap opera \u003ci\u003eDays of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033827590384,"sku":"9781934200728","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200728_p0.jpg?v=1763641844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}