{"product_id":"fair-day-in-an-ancient-greg-allendorf-9781942083221","title":"Fair Day in an Ancient Town: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Allendorf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194208322X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942083221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brain Mill Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d","brand":"Greg Allendorf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169918677247,"sku":"9781942083221","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94b32376-edc5-44fd-a683-c40f7daafce6.jpg?v=1689655684","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fair-day-in-an-ancient-greg-allendorf-9781942083221","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}