{"product_id":"mud-in-our-mouths-poems-paperback","title":"Mud in Our Mouths: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuiza Flynn-Goodlett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning poet writing through violence, solace, and hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's \u003ci\u003eMud in Our Mouths\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how we are all enmeshed in a web of violence and love. As the speaker of the collection drives cross-country to visit her family of origin in Tennessee, she reckons with the tensions between her current and past selves and the many ways violence--interpersonal, societal, and environmental--has shaped her life. She struggles to find meaning, questioning the ethics of locating faith in a natural world she is unintentionally destroying, and grapples with her complicity in systems of power and oppression as a white Southern woman. Ultimately, she rejects the idea of genetic family as a place of solace; instead, she cleaves to the liberation and joy of connections forged outside those strictures, where intimacy is freely chosen rather than preordained. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLook Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, as well as numerous chapbooks, most recently \u003ci\u003eFamiliar\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry can be found in \u003ci\u003eFugue, Five Points, TriQuarterly, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for the Whiting Award-winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.82 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47581971710173,"sku":"9780810148338","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/LYjnN7Gke09780810148338.webp?v=1773566712","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/mud-in-our-mouths-poems-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}