{"product_id":"blind-girl-grunt-the-selected-blues-lyrics-and-other-poems-paperback","title":"Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other 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\u003eConstance Merritt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Finalist for Lambda Literary Award \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, \"Invisible Woman, Dancing,\" is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a party full of casual, good-intentioned racists and ableists. The ending of the poem is explosive. Constance Merritt shows incredible range - erotic poems to a wayward lover; blues lyrics so rhythmic I can nearly hear the guitar; and devotional poems that offer \"this, you know, is love, is all, the end.\" \u003ci\u003eBlind Girl Grunt\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work by a major poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Jillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMerritt's latest collection is a back in bend-bend in love, bend in prayer, and bend in anger. A Blues infiltrates these lines and stanzas, ready to sing and stay (as any devoted lover) through the long haul. And the haul here is a woman, her myriad contents, in medias res.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-CM Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeyond their shared-and dazzling-immunity to taboos, the poems in Constance Merritt's fourth book are very different from each other. Different in form, from stern villanelles to get-drunk-on-them blues poems to wandering narratives. And they are different in their tones, with ruthless self-awareness next to sexy lullaby next to persuasive rage at being \"unmoored and vanishing\" beyond \"the flag of whiteness.\" Even within single poems, tone is protean. \"The Less Than Greater Than Blues\" is goofily playful and also as blunt as blunt gets about the roots of the suffering we cause each other. The penultimate poem \"Advent\" shifts between a longing that intends to wreck and a longing that intends to redeem. In fact the book as a whole shifts between these longings. As do we. Merritt implicates us gently but without hesitation, wrapping us into the \"brilliant skin, the ruinous eyes, \/ the body poised in transit\" that opens the collection and that judges and blesses, throughout it. \u003ci\u003eBlind Girl Grunt\u003c\/i\u003e is supple, and rigorous, and so surprising. It is vital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Taije Silverman\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726608527667,"sku":"9780997914917","price":23.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dWhlSCtkYU5PTGZqOXNRbXdkclRQQT09.webp?v=1763740838","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/blind-girl-grunt-the-selected-blues-lyrics-and-other-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}