{"product_id":"the-meatgirl-whatever-paperback","title":"The Meatgirl Whatever - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKristin Hatch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristin Hatch has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in various journals including the \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 46\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769965936928,"sku":"9781934200728","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/acb8b6ea5c0ac3360001773a6879584c.webp?v=1780361165","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-meatgirl-whatever-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}