{"product_id":"neurotic-love-baby-marie-conlan-9781646629169","title":"Neurotic Love Baby","description":"Marie Conlan's newest collection, \u003cem\u003eNeurotic Love Baby\u003c\/em\u003e spans five intoxicating sections composed of entropic spaces, hues of wilderness, and piercing questions that are at once ephemeral and funny: \"How many things do you own?\" Jutting images and gritty testimony collide to embody intimate fields wherein \"you are a sepia rinse \u0026amp; I keep seeing your face bloom from inside my mouth\". Conlan's prose-like poems, in their varying incarnations, culminate into a landscape where bodies decompose and mix \"with blood, dust with sweat\" inside an urgent syntax that does not let up. These moments arise as a glimmering compost of contrast and tension which are both feral and refined, electric and emboldened: \"you rub the line of my spine you tenderize me into a pulp I am waiting for you to discard at the bottom of your morning juice.\" Here, the segments live as a coating of sediment and sentiment, of \"leaking petals\" we wear together as we peer into a \"three pastel sunset.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Heather Sweeney\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e (Spuyten Duyvil) and\u003cem\u003e Call Me California \u003c\/em\u003e(Finishing Line Press)\u003cbr\u003eMarie Conlan's poetry has an aperture that widens \u0026amp; compresses in neurotic palpitations. With a psychedelic tenderness, Conlan guides us through a spinning vortex, launching us into snow puddles, smearing us with cacti snot, crumbling us into seed. Questions are posed \u0026amp; answered through the wild mundane. God is found in trembling fists. Through bodies through bloodroots through morning smell of bacon grease \u0026amp; kaleidoscopic landscapes, we feel the raw yearning of a young being attempting to get even closer to her lover; attempting to weave her life, her love, her fear, her reverence \u0026amp; her dreaming into a kind of beauty. For Conlan, any kind of beauty breeds the realest kind of meaning.\u003cstrong\u003e-Gabrielle Joy Lessans\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e Bread Of \u003c\/em\u003e(Ornithopter)\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie Conlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646629167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646629169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Marie Conlan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439929110783,"sku":"9781646629169","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9025a416-ef1a-4e5a-af6a-c5617d85cf3e.jpg?v=1777179780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neurotic-love-baby-marie-conlan-9781646629169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}