{"product_id":"somebody-please-paperback","title":"Somebody Please - 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\u003eDave Barrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRaegan Bird\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A poem doesn't need to be perfect,\" writes this self-described 'unremarkabler-in-chief, ' and in place of perfection we get far more satisfying qualities, like invention and spontaneity. Take for example the sentence-long 'The Three of Them': 'It felt really good to have another big animal in the room watching over both of them.' Did I mention these poems will disturb you? Somebody Please is subversive and transformative and awfully funny.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Will Schutt, Author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a poet. To think we're all working with the same tools ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lamb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dave Barrett's brand of aphorism holds a goofy sense of the body and all its seepages. His is a world where god is a clown and we all feel \"that large breasted imposed upon feeling\". Inhabiting flesh is our privilege on earth; this is a book where boners are juxtaposed alongside the natural and spiritual world in surprising and absurd ways, because it both is and isn't that serious sometimes. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Niina Pollari, author of Path of Totality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book of aphoristic wit meant to be read in bouts of coughing laughter or sung to the cold night skies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Graham Irvin, author of I Have a Gun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48622453358841,"sku":"9798234008473","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/EfDVYroBgV9798234008473.webp?v=1782987480","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/somebody-please-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}