{"product_id":"04-13-2021-exhibitionist-by-molly-cross-blanchard","title":"Cross-Blanchard, Molly: Exhibitionist","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eCoach House Books\u003c\/span\u003e, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: April 27, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne minute she's drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she's asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of \u003cem\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/em\u003e oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard's poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eseen\u003c\/i\u003e, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that you'll still like her by the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sticky, sad, and sultry, \u003cem\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/em\u003e is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice cream, to fart at a dinner party, to sprawl out on a chaise lounge, stare through a dusty skylight and whisper that they think they may love you. And that love will be unmistakably mutual.\" --Mallory Tater, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth Yard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Will Be Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Multiple orgasms appear in the first line of the first poem in \u003cem\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/em\u003e. Multiple orgasms, as a relative image or a practice, elicit everything from mystical worship to moral panic. Molly Cross-Blanchard understands this diametric power. She nods to this power with countless crisp and explicit images throughout her debut collection. Read her poems first to marvel at the well-crafted voicing of sexuality. Read a second time to appreciate Cross-Blanchard's beautiful charge of juxtaposition. Again and again, she places the erotic beside mundane so that both are transformed -- a dirty basement carpet becomes the backdrop of profound intimacy and gas station coffee acts as a symbol of self-discovery.\" -Amber Dawn, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Art is Killing Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33020001222679,"sku":"9781552454220","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/mcb.gif?v=1610827182","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/04-13-2021-exhibitionist-by-molly-cross-blanchard","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}