{"product_id":"cool-limbo-michael-montlack-9781935520405","title":"Cool Limbo","description":"COOL LIMBO is a series of dazzling portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal. Like its cover, which features the title poem's sexy 70's chick lounging-stoned-by the pool (as she neglects the water-winged kids she's supposed to be babysitting), the book is the best kind of party-unofficial, unpretentious, and unabashed. And everyone's there \"on plastic lawn furniture...with six packs and lit cigarettes: \" From Liz Taylor, Gertrude Stein, and The Golden Girls, to Orpheus, Vanity Smurf, and Stevie Nicks. Poem after poem, these figures somehow mingle with the poet, in the not-so-still life studies of his boisterous family and friends, building a narrative about the departure from suburbia to the big city (from the ghost of a boy to a realized though sometimes-haunted man)-all while commenting on, as Elaine Equi puts it, the \"constantly shifting sexual codes\" assigned to men and women alike. Few places can you find a poem about a gay porn star that concerns itself with the meaning of objectivity and art just pages after a charged feminist manifesto called \"If Hello Kitty Had a Mouth.\" But beyond that colorful variety of subject and theme, not to mention his mastery of dialogue and what Mark Bibbins calls \"devious one-liners,\" what's most remarkable about this poet in his debut collection is his ability to confront the serious and painful while never abandoning his sharp sense of humor and playful spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Montlack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935520407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935520405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e NYQ Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d","brand":"Michael Montlack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983840379135,"sku":"9781935520405","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04fe6422-4860-4bb6-a5c1-ea02e13c9532.jpg?v=1683269026","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cool-limbo-michael-montlack-9781935520405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}