{"product_id":"what-flies-want-poems-paperback","title":"What Flies Want: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhat Flies Want\u003c\/i\u003e, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The speaker, who grew up in a bicultural family on the U.S.\/Mexico border, learns she must play a role in a culture that prizes whiteness, patriarchy, and chauvinism. As an adult she oscillates between performed confidence and obedience. As a wife, she bristles against the expectations of emotional labor. As a mother, she attempts to direct her white male children away from the toxic power they are positioned to inherit, only to find how deeply she is also implicated in these systems. Tangled in a family history of depression, a society fixated on guns, a rocky relationship, and her own desire to ignore and deny the problems she must face, this is a speaker who is by turns defiant, defeated, self-implicating, and hopeful. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Pérez\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Sugar, House of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and coedited \u003ci\u003eThe Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e. She works as a high school teacher and dean, and lives in Denver, Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.6 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766487482656,"sku":"9781609388430","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/80490d923d6918fc41ebf9c24dc2e92a.webp?v=1780293620","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-flies-want-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}