{"product_id":"sweet-bloody-salty-clean-paperback","title":"Sweet Bloody Salty Clean - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Kritikos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA square-shaped book containing poems and prose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA body minimizes and maximizes itself, the flavors are over-saturated and nonexistent, citizens are famished and gorged, cash is king, and virtue weighs nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacters contained within: shepherds, little girls, baby elephants, Venus flytraps, grocery stores, famine, God, meat, and money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"SWEET BLOODY SALTY CLEAN by Francesca Kritikos is a ruthless book about the body's canny acclimation to anything, even its own death drive. Disordered eating, self-revulsion, lack of fulfillment or money-Kritikos' poems are permutations on a few tight contemporary themes, yet I found myself continually surprised by her bluntness and clarity: 'A fly landing in a Venus \/ flytrap \/\/ is getting what it wants \/ otherwise it wouldn't.' This is a furious text with a keen sense of self; these poems cut.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Niina Pollari, author of \u003cem\u003ePath of Totality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kritikos writes desire with the precision of Anne Carson, the hunger of Richard Siken, and the stark honesty of Sylvia Plath, but her poetry is all her own. This book is a fleshy, complex reckoning with the impossibility of keeping and the inevitability of losing. Kritikos knows the lengths we will go to in order to feel anything. As alive and essential as pleasure itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lindsay Lerman, author of \u003cem\u003eI'm From Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhat Are You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777312358688,"sku":"9798985676488","price":28.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/74a17e7c0ef21c531a6c7dbbecd03e14.webp?v=1780497160","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sweet-bloody-salty-clean-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}