{"product_id":"cu-t-mertz-9781734691153","title":"Cu T","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat binds these poems together is a desire to speak what goes unspoken. To reply into the void of empire and late capitalism with a howl of authenticity, not trying to separate parts of the self or parts of the culture, but to exist in all of it at once. This book is a portrait of survival through speech, story, politics, celebrity\/star gazing, TV, and all forms of popular music. These poems engage with \"Western tradition\" and its unraveling, focusing on an economically insecure adjunct life in Pittsburgh, PA which is--against all odds--interrupted by love that entails moving to a safer country. These poems exist in conversation with the author's conservative Catholic upbringing, anti-imperialist and anti-racist politics, and poets ranging from Sappho to Elizabeth Bishop to Eazy-E. The poems inhabit a world where John Wayne stars in \u003ci\u003eManhattan\u003c\/i\u003e and Rush Limbaugh stars in \u003ci\u003eBoys Don't Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, with elegies to Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Tina Turner, finally culminating in a finale where the author rewrites (or translates, or reboots, or \"covers\") T.S. Eliot's \"The Waste Land\" (with a little help from Cyndi Lauper and Buffy the Vampire Slayer).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1734691158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781734691153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Threadsuns Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47072166674687,"sku":"9781734691153","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b4e7f1d-2534-46eb-bbab-895107a32314.jpg?v=1753415980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cu-t-mertz-9781734691153","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}