{"product_id":"cunt-norton-by-dodie-bellamy","title":"Bellamy, Dodie: Cunt Norton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCunt Norton \u003c\/em\u003eby Dodie Bellamy (Les Figues Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 12, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003e In \u003cem\u003eCUNT NORTON\u003c\/em\u003e, the sequel to her unforgettable \u003cem\u003eCUNT UPS\u003c\/em\u003e, Dodie Bellamy \"cunts\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1975 edition), setting her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour the canonical voices of English literature. The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems (\"the greatest fuck poem in the English language,\" according to Ariana Reines) that lust after the very aesthetic they resist. \"These patriarchal voices that threatened to erase me—of course I love them as well,\" Bellamy writes. Even as \u003cem\u003eCUNT NORTON\u003c\/em\u003e dismembers the history of English poetry, \"cunting\" Chaucer and Shakespeare, Emerson and Lowell, it simultaneously allows new sexual members to arise and fill in the gaps, transforming the secret into the explicit, the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque. Bellamy's cunted texts breathe life into literary \"masters\" with joy, honesty, hilarity, and insatiable passion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I think this could be the most joyful book on Earth.\"—Ariana Reines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337280077847,"sku":"9781934254493","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_caa3e45b-374e-4440-bef7-20b29d2b51c2.jpg?v=1586746104","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/cunt-norton-by-dodie-bellamy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}