{"product_id":"fair-day-in-an-ancient-town-poems-9781942083221","title":"Fair Day in an Ancient Town: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Greg Allendorf\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brain Mill Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brain Mill Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorf's work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Aliki Barnstone, author of \u003ci\u003eBright Body\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's April now, \u003c\/i\u003e complains Allendorf's speaker, \u003ci\u003eand still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eFair Day in An Ancient Town\u003c\/i\u003e subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitman's darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasies--or the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M\u0026amp;Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. \u003ci\u003eO, the way his mouth confounded me \/ and folded on my mouth there in the fold, \u003c\/i\u003e slyly sings one of Allendorf's shepherd's songs, \u003ci\u003eO, the glory of his hairy arms, \/ the way they lit my eyes a little then.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLayering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deep--and then find a way to be alone under the covers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speak--and continue speaking--genuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Scott Cairns, author of \u003ci\u003eIdiot Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Brain Mill Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45128119517335,"sku":"9781942083221","price":688.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781942083221.webp?v=1767145167","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fair-day-in-an-ancient-town-poems-9781942083221","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}