{"product_id":"i-am-not-trying-to-hide-my-hungers-from-the-world-9781950774272","title":"I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Southern Review of Books's \"Best Southern Books of April 2021\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePunk-rock feminist poems exploring motherhood, pop culture, and resistance with a spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture and the political zeitgeist. With references ranging from Courtney Love to Lana Del Rey to Richard Burton to Nicolas Cage, \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World\u003c\/i\u003e revitalizes the way we look at mothering: pushing its boundaries and reclaiming one's spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2021), \u003ci\u003eMy Dinner with Ron Jeremy\u003c\/i\u003e (Third Man Books, 2016), and \u003ci\u003eThieves in the Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of a 2019 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Millay Colony, Split this Rock, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaxwing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBitch Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVIDA\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494781128978,"sku":"9781950774272","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2c0ad6d-7f81-437b-8bf5-c70363ef5056.jpg?v=1730668208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-am-not-trying-to-hide-my-hungers-from-the-world-9781950774272","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}