{"product_id":"and-all-of-us-drinking-john-sweet-9798992500950","title":"and all of us drinking the blood of our enemies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry for the 21st century, and whatever might come after; the poetry of no-guarantees and no-reassurances, of always crawling blindly through the failure of the past. This is poetry for governments who can no longer be trusted. This is poetry for the lost and the vanished; for Lanegan, for Gorky, for K. Sage and G. Hart. Poetry shaped by the self-loathing and self-destruction of Pollock. Of Cobain. Of 100,000,000 self-made martyrs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry distilled from the vitriol of punk rock and the disorientation of surrealism. The idea of art as something more, or less, than commodity. Love letters \u0026amp; notes of despair to Camus, to Maar, to Kahlo. To every version of ourselves that we have lost forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry for when poetry is no longer enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John's new collection continues to isolate that spear in the gut where deadly emotions dare to run with the chance of living... The last chance of living.\"-Dan Provost, \u003cem\u003eAll In a Pretty Little Row\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Forget The Age of Aquarius. That's long gone. Dead and buried. Welcome to the Age of Assholery, where the sons of grandees hunt and kill vanishing species. Humanity? Empathy? Forget about it, greed is good and what else matters in the end? Sweet is Captain Kick Ass in the Land of Nil, \"fear is a weapon, of course\/ and pain is too.\" What more do we need to know than, \"This is not my century but it's the one I will die in.\"? I'm with you all the way, brother, and I'm coming down fast. \"It's a life\/but no way to live.\"\"-Alan Catlin, \u003cem\u003eAnother Saturday Night in Jukebox Hell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Sweet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798992500950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Roadside Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.27d","brand":"John Sweet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742950240511,"sku":"9798992500950","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ea271d4-d677-4237-9e48-0888993b3509.jpg?v=1782448817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/and-all-of-us-drinking-john-sweet-9798992500950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}