{"product_id":"mud-in-our-mouths-poems-9780810148338","title":"Mud in Our Mouths: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning poet writing through violence, solace, and hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's \u003ci\u003eMud in Our Mouths\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how we are all enmeshed in a web of violence and love. As the speaker of the collection drives cross-country to visit her family of origin in Tennessee, she reckons with the tensions between her current and past selves and the many ways violence--interpersonal, societal, and environmental--has shaped her life. She struggles to find meaning, questioning the ethics of locating faith in a natural world she is unintentionally destroying, and grapples with her complicity in systems of power and oppression as a white Southern woman. Ultimately, she rejects the idea of genetic family as a place of solace; instead, she cleaves to the liberation and joy of connections forged outside those strictures, where intimacy is freely chosen rather than preordained. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLook Alive\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, as well as numerous chapbooks, most recently \u003ci\u003eFamiliar\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry can be found in \u003ci\u003eFugue, Five Points, TriQuarterly, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for the Whiting Award-winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181638910226,"sku":"9780810148338","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8523ef5-2842-4eb0-8960-2d2fe9e9ae8c.jpg?v=1744399250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mud-in-our-mouths-poems-9780810148338","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}