{"product_id":"matos-carlo-we-prefer-hb","title":"Matos, Carlo: We Prefer the Damned (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnbound Edition Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 12, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Prefer the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e, the 11th book from Carlo Matos, features poems exploring bisexual relationships, erasure, and denial. Matos, equally celebrated for his fiction, poetry, and prose-poetry, pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in \u003cem\u003eWe Prefer the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e weave his Portuguese-American heritage and bi+ lived experience. Through language turned and punctuated in fresh ways, Matos finds the structures and syntax to embrace past and present, old self and new self. His toughness as a former MMA fighter turns to the finessed strength of rigorous self-examination with these poems. The collection embraces the true complexities of the bi+\/pan\/poly experience, particularly false accusations of not being Queer enough or, simultaneously, of being too sexual and incapable of monogamy. These poems also trace the boundaries where such issues interact with a working-class, child-of-immigrants upbringing, in which the very words for describing bisexuality did not exist. With \u003cem\u003eWe Prefer the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e, Carlo Matos creates that missing language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlo Matos is a bisexual-plus author who has published ten books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Quitters\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIt's Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments\u003c\/em\u003e. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in such journals as \u003cem\u003eHobart, DMQ Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePANK\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, is a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago and a former MMA fighter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41624958271511,"sku":"9780991378029","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780991378029ita_533x_bfd16c6a-e710-4516-b4be-7a6f2d3c4f90.jpg?v=1776025554","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/matos-carlo-we-prefer-hb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}