{"product_id":"wenderoth-joe-if-i-don-pb","title":"Wenderoth, Joe: If I Don't Breathe, How Do I Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eWave Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 1, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Wendy's\u003c\/i\u003e, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively short poems, often twelve lines or fewer, most of which crackle with a bleakness that's part gallows humor, part outrage, and part despair.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Real Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A perverse, sometimes pretty, obscene, and confounding collection of one page meditative missives . . . trimmed with lunatic fringe.\"--\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereview of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Wendy's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethey are perfecting the pillow\u003cbr\u003ewith which\u003cbr\u003eyou are being suffocated\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003enow it sings to you\u003cbr\u003eand shows you pictures\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817265049623,"sku":"9781933517872","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71a9zKyw4SL._SL1500.jpg?v=1772937146","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wenderoth-joe-if-i-don-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}