{"product_id":"barnburner-by-erin-hoover","title":"Hoover, Erin: Barnburner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarnburner \u003c\/em\u003eby Erin Hoover (Elixir Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poetry. BARNBURNER by Erin Hoover is the winner of the 2017 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Kathryn Nuernberger, contest judge, had this to say about it: \"The epigraph to BARNBURNER is a call to burn it all down: 'According to an old story, there was once a Dutchman who was so bothered by the rats in his barn that he burned down the barn to get rid of them. Thus a barn burner became one who destroyed all in order to get rid of a nuisance.' There is honesty in this epigraph, raw and brutal, like the narrative voices in Erin Hoover's poems. But there's an irony at play here, an irony perhaps borrowing a bit from the ironies of Frost's 'Mending Wall': these poems don't burn down the cruelties of a homogeneous, racist patriarchy. Instead, they make a muse of it. A muse that can be objectified, stripped bare, and put on a pedestal for all to scorn. Hoover fridges that muse so that one speaker of a heroine after another is vaulted by the shock of such violence into a journey of personal discovery. There are mean-spirited, ruthless characters in these poems and, in a kind of reverse Bechdel test, Hoover wipes away their inner lives and never lets them talk to each other about anything except those they have hurt.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337276440599,"sku":"9781932418675","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_0649cbea-53c7-4a60-9e8f-fd41e9409949.jpg?v=1586746034","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/barnburner-by-erin-hoover","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}