{"product_id":"neurotic-love-baby-paperback","title":"Neurotic Love Baby - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarie Conlan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie Conlan's newest collection, \u003cem\u003eNeurotic Love Baby\u003c\/em\u003e spans five intoxicating sections composed of entropic spaces, hues of wilderness, and piercing questions that are at once ephemeral and funny: \"How many things do you own?\" Jutting images and gritty testimony collide to embody intimate fields wherein \"you are a sepia rinse \u0026amp; I keep seeing your face bloom from inside my mouth\". Conlan's prose-like poems, in their varying incarnations, culminate into a landscape where bodies decompose and mix \"with blood, dust with sweat\" inside an urgent syntax that does not let up. These moments arise as a glimmering compost of contrast and tension which are both feral and refined, electric and emboldened: \"you rub the line of my spine you tenderize me into a pulp I am waiting for you to discard at the bottom of your morning juice.\" Here, the segments live as a coating of sediment and sentiment, of \"leaking petals\" we wear together as we peer into a \"three pastel sunset.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Heather Sweeney\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e (Spuyten Duyvil) and\u003cem\u003e Call Me California \u003c\/em\u003e(Finishing Line Press)\u003cbr\u003eMarie Conlan's poetry has an aperture that widens \u0026amp; compresses in neurotic palpitations. With a psychedelic tenderness, Conlan guides us through a spinning vortex, launching us into snow puddles, smearing us with cacti snot, crumbling us into seed. Questions are posed \u0026amp; answered through the wild mundane. God is found in trembling fists. Through bodies through bloodroots through morning smell of bacon grease \u0026amp; kaleidoscopic landscapes, we feel the raw yearning of a young being attempting to get even closer to her lover; attempting to weave her life, her love, her fear, her reverence \u0026amp; her dreaming into a kind of beauty. For Conlan, any kind of beauty breeds the realest kind of meaning.\u003cstrong\u003e-Gabrielle Joy Lessans\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e Bread Of \u003c\/em\u003e(Ornithopter)\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68368916414685,"sku":"9781646629169","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/e5LP5AEzH9781646629169.webp?v=1793436699","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/neurotic-love-baby-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}