{"product_id":"penguin-modern-poets-2-controlled-explosions","title":"Michael Robbins: Penguin Modern Poets 2 [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . by the bollocks I mind, by the virgin I'm like,\u003cbr\u003eby the smell of teen spirit, the punch that I spike,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"by hydro and chronic and eight-legged sparks,\u003cbr\u003eby G-strings and tassels, by bummers and narcs,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"by the temples I razed with a swish of my tail,\u003cbr\u003eby the models of Jupiter I built to full scale,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I am a man of few words, each one a thrown switch.\u003cbr\u003eShall I name the mouth-breathers at whom I pitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"with superstitious loathing these excretions oozing bile?\u003cbr\u003eThen pull up a chair. This could take a while.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eMICHAEL ROBBINS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 'Space Mountain'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was born as a woman, I talk you to death,\u003cbr\u003e                                                or else your ear off,\u003cbr\u003eor else you to sleep. What do I have, all the time\u003cbr\u003ein the world, and a voice that swings brass back\u003cbr\u003eand forth, you can hear it, and a focal point where\u003cbr\u003emy face should be. What do I have, I have absolute\u003cbr\u003epower, and what I want is your money, your drool,\u003cbr\u003eand your mind, and the sense of myself as a snake,\u003cbr\u003eand a garter in the grass . . .\u003cbr\u003e                         Why do I do it is easy, I am working\u003cbr\u003emy way through school. Give me the money\u003cbr\u003e                   for Modernism, and give me the money\u003cbr\u003efor what comes next.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003ePATRICIA LOCKWOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 'The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . we just hugged, sat on a high up bench\u003cbr\u003esomewhere not that secret really\u003cbr\u003eoff the Lewes road, afternoon of gold\u003cbr\u003eand magpies on a cusp. But no wholly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"depth-charge branch is too white, padded\u003cbr\u003eshot a mushroom cap a cheapened rink\u003cbr\u003eice age glass of frozen, uplit tongues\u003cbr\u003eunleaven how I never meant for you to drink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"a glass of day-old wholly sincere\u003cbr\u003espit who under maketh spring sew\u003cbr\u003etongues into my pocket tongue\u003cbr\u003eof day-old really salt-sincere snow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"bell ring\u003cbr\u003elhude sing\u003cbr\u003eand not just sitting on a bench\u003cbr\u003ehow much we want to fuck in circling spring . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eTIMOTHY THORNTON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 'Broadcast'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robbins, Michael \u0026 Lockwood, Patricia \u0026 Thornton, Timothy","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48991544017235,"sku":"XV80141983943","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/robbins-michael-lockwood-patricia-thornton-timothy-penguin-modern-poets-2-controlled-explosions-xv80141983943-57230264041811.jpg?v=1726808528","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/penguin-modern-poets-2-controlled-explosions","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}