{"product_id":"lowe-j-s-a-internet-gpb","title":"Lowe, J. S. A.: Internet Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinishing Line Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 23, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The poems of Internet Girls concern themselves with electronic as well as physical loss and inevitability; they try to contain that slippage, to box up all that which is evanescent and disappearing. Their speaker is exhausted if not exhaustive and possibly also electronic herself, a queer female narrator staring down the untraversable span between intimacy and distance: \"I keep thinking how I wish I were a poet to describe \/ certain things I cannot get right.\" A shifting constellation of images embroiders the work together through textual and linguistic disruptions. \"Someone has to sleep with politicians, be a starfucker, do your dirty \/ service, this work of being soap-slimed and broken,\" observes one; in sequence, the lyrics stand for something natural, mystical, and larger than the self, even split by grief: \"So I loved on, a desperate believer, \/ divider: three parts in vain but two \/ just here for the river.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41927226982423,"sku":"9798888382653","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71o_jPMcERL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1736972182","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/lowe-j-s-a-internet-gpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}