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Knox expands on her inimitable cast of characters, in hilariously poignant poems. In poems like Marriage and One Ton of Dirt, Knox ventures further into autobiographical territory than she's ever gone before, in ways that will startle those familiar with her previous books, exploring relationships with her exes, her parents, and her younger self. Like the best comedians (to whom she's often compared), Knox is never merely funny. Each of her speakers, even the bedraggled coyote that walks into a Quizno's, has something important to say. Bob Hicock describes the effect of her trademark dark humor perfectly when he says, The oddities of her work create a space in which it's possible to be oddly sincere. 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Knox's A Gringo Like Me contains poems at once raucous and sexy, tender and high. In favorites such as Hot Ass Poem, Cruising for Prostitutes, and Chicken Bucket, Knox's speakers appear ornery, hickish, undereducated, misogynist, or worse, but each quirky character manages to elucidate a truth we're better off knowing, even if we'd rather forget it. At other times, Knox's lyrical I is downright pretty; in poems like A Common American Name and Freckles she charms. Knox has collected dramatic monologues, personal lyrics, and even plays together in a single energetic volume for a genuinely surprising debut.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355265569041,"sku":"CIN0615161448G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355269435665,"sku":"CIN0615161448VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004760981777,"sku":"NIN9780615161440","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52350768742673,"sku":"NLS9780615161440","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615161448.jpg?v=1751359669"},{"product_id":"crushing-it-book-jennifer-l-knox-9781556595868","title":"Crushing It","description":"The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, \u003cem\u003eCrushing It\u003c\/em\u003e, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox's distinctive surrealism, \u003cem\u003eCrushing It\u003c\/em\u003e also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox's empathetic depictions of the ego's need to assert its precious, singular I suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. 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Knox knows how to draw human complexity out of absurdity and kitsch (and vice versa) without positioning herself above it. She is one of us, sharing our fear and wonder, and we feel this sense of community as if there were five million other viewers-a spin on Whitman's multitudes-watching along with us to see how she makes it out of each lyrically harrowing poem. Is that camp? Is it satire? Who cares  Whatever it is, as one poem reports, it gives me a real, really felt feeling, and that's what I'm a sucker for every time. -Gregory Pardlo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DIGEST Jennifer L. Knox is one of our funniest writers, but what places her work in a realm of its own is the empathy that surrounds, contradicts, and occasionally undermines the joke, sending us far beyond the punch line. Written from the far edge of vast experience, these poems lyricize the post-beatdown quality of middle age. 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