{"product_id":"smudgy-and-lossy-paperback","title":"Smudgy and Lossy - 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\u003eJohn Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The poems scorn and celebrate--with equal gusto--feelings and attitudes that shift, deepen and advise.\" --Prageeta Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmudgy and Lossy\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection of poetry by Idaho-based poet John Myers, offers us a map to a borderless and psychedelically rural landscape--poems begin and end without notice, and the titular characters, Smudgy and Lossy, fade in and out of the rustic settings, situations, and daily chores that Myers assigns to them, \"look[ing] for delicate flowers that bloom through hard sand or clay.\" With an expansive and textured queerness covering each page, the flat horizons of these poems sit too far away to navigate their identity with any certainty. Building continuously toward the collection's final swirling 13 pages, a 127-line list poem leaves us with one of the most exciting and bewildering poetic finales in recent memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Myers\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the Endless Mountains and now lives in Moscow, Idaho. John's work has appered in \u003ci\u003eAufgabe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quaterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLungfull\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePank\u003c\/i\u003e.\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 0.3 x 7.5 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353748750585,"sku":"9780998829043","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UCLmEu3lLj9780998829043.webp?v=1769828470","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/smudgy-and-lossy-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}