{"product_id":"the-meatgirl-whatever-kristin-hatch-9781934200728","title":"The Meatgirl Whatever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Poetry Series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Kristin Hatch's debut collection ooze with the viscus of shattered reality. Bodily, almost animalistic, they flirt with apocalypse, accumulate like diary entries from a madman's kitchen where knife blades hover near the jugular. \"This is a documentary,\" writes K. Silem Mohammad, who selected this book for the National Poetry Series, \"or these poems are promotional cartoon avatars, installations of a longer, live-action Emmy-winning series in which glee and melancholy, revulsion and beauty, lyric and satire, living flesh and chopped-up meat combine in sinister gurlesque fantasia.\" A terrifying and necessary first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"annunciation\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebent, he talked me through all my tied, big like i was kansas or a diagram sketched with arrows pointing to my special parts with \"trick\" and \"murder\" spelled out in clean, legible type. his documentary voice uncled at my ankles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emy legs folded back for him \u0026amp; he'd say my mouth was a hauntbag. he could take the willows from my lungs. i hated himbut i begged for it in the underhang \u0026amp; the bad would bang into bird shapes \u0026amp; every time my ugly became less ugly, ours. for a while, the mirrors were too thick with it to see through.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eafter he left, i picked at my at my toes \u0026amp; tried to get ancient. stungdumb, \u0026amp; gnarled against that autumn, i sat barefoot to imagine his arm hair--all of it shuttering like wheat in a stormfield--featherlight little marys--a legless army, aghast at god \u0026amp; beginning to show.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Hatch\u003c\/b\u003e has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in various journals including \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her chapbook, \u003ci\u003ethrough the hour glass\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from CutBank and is about the soap opera \u003ci\u003eDays of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristin Hatch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934200727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934200728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fence Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Kristin Hatch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937548959999,"sku":"9781934200728","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_41ea181d-e031-4d06-ba20-fcf2d94ecb82.jpg?v=1681430718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-meatgirl-whatever-kristin-hatch-9781934200728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}