{"product_id":"meatgirl-whatever-book-kristin-hatch-9781934200728","title":"The Meatgirl Whatever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Poetry Series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Kristin Hatch's debut collection ooze with the viscus of shattered reality. Bodily, almost animalistic, they flirt with apocalypse, accumulate like diary entries from a madman's kitchen where knife blades hover near the jugular. This is a documentary, writes K. Silem Mohammad, who selected this book for the National Poetry Series, or these poems are promotional cartoon avatars, installations of a longer, live-action Emmy-winning series in which glee and melancholy, revulsion and beauty, lyric and satire, living flesh and chopped-up meat combine in sinister gurlesque fantasia. A terrifying and necessary first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom annunciation: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebent, he talked me through all my tied, big like i was kansas or a diagram sketched with arrows pointing to my special parts with trick and murder spelled out in clean, legible type. his documentary voice uncled at my ankles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emy legs folded back for him \u0026amp; he'd say my mouth was a hauntbag. he could take the willows from my lungs. i hated himbut i begged for it in the underhang \u0026amp; the bad would bang into bird shapes \u0026amp; every time my ugly became less ugly, ours. for a while, the mirrors were too thick with it to see through.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eafter he left, i picked at my at my toes \u0026amp; tried to get ancient. stungdumb, \u0026amp; gnarled against that autumn, i sat barefoot to imagine his arm hair--all of it shuttering like wheat in a stormfield--featherlight little marys--a legless army, aghast at god \u0026amp; beginning to show.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Hatch\u003c\/b\u003e has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in various journals including \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Her chapbook, \u003ci\u003ethrough the hour glass\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from CutBank and is about the soap opera \u003ci\u003eDays of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394104725777,"sku":"CIN1934200727G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51418032505105,"sku":"CIN1934200727VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756188659985,"sku":"NIN9781934200728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934200727.jpg?v=1750727537","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/meatgirl-whatever-book-kristin-hatch-9781934200728","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}