{"product_id":"mud-in-our-mouths-poems-paperback-softback-9780810148338","title":"Mud in Our Mouths; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148338","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMud in Our Mouths\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuiza Flynn-Goodlett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148338\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.113 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMud in Our Mouths\u003c\/i\u003e elegiacally renders a queer experience of small-town America with care for her subjects, attention to the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors at work, and a precision of language and lineation. The poems consider the ephemeral: places and people once known, the people one used to be.\" - Emilia Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eNonbinary Bird of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I love it when a poem's shape and content collide - when I'm asked to open to more than what, at first, I perceive. Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's \u003ci\u003eMud in our Mouths\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer ecology in \u003ci\u003ethe language of wind\u003c\/i\u003e. These exquisitely controlled lines simultaneously hold it all\u0026amp;mdash threat, violence, loss, love, joy, and even \u003ci\u003eprovisional\/grace -\u003c\/i\u003e while spilling, like seeds, to become bodies born of light.\" - TC Tolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Practices\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning poet writing through violence, solace, and hope\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eLuiza 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To My Neighbor as He Downs Trees \u003cbr\u003e I Ask the Garden for Comfort \u003cbr\u003e Beefsteak Begonia \u003cbr\u003e The Most Glorious Birds \u003cbr\u003e Perseids Season \u003cbr\u003e Stay \u003cbr\u003e Careworn \u003cbr\u003e Good Work \u003cbr\u003e The Murky Slipper \u003cbr\u003e In Oakland \u003cbr\u003e Shadow Boxer \u003cbr\u003e Certainties \u003cbr\u003e Highway \u003cbr\u003e Thunderstorms over El Rey Court, Santa Fe, NM \u003cbr\u003e Tornado Alley \u003cbr\u003e Private Property \u003cbr\u003e The Memory of Pain \u003cbr\u003e Not That Again \u003cbr\u003e Apocalypse \u003cbr\u003e For the Dying Chick outside Whole Foods, Albuquerque, NM \u003cbr\u003e Passive Ideation \u003cbr\u003e Forgetting \u003cbr\u003e Siblings \u003cbr\u003e Long Distance \u003cbr\u003e Object Permanence \u003cbr\u003e For Queen Anne'\u003cbr\u003es Lace, Cairo, IL \u003cbr\u003e Auto-response re: Pastoral \u003cbr\u003e Dangers \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTwo\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Our Time \u003cbr\u003e After the Mastectomy, Union City, TN \u003cbr\u003e Grandmother'\u003cbr\u003es Body \u003cbr\u003e Family Tree \u003cbr\u003e In the Produce Section of Super Walmart, Union City, TN \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIt'\u003cbr\u003es Easier These Days \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dollies \u003cbr\u003e For a Dildo in the Grass at Veterans Park, Union City, TN \u003cbr\u003e Last Gasp \u003cbr\u003e Scab \u003cbr\u003e Orphans \u003cbr\u003e Clarksville Elegy \u003cbr\u003e Evidence Locker \u003cbr\u003e The Christmas Orange \u003cbr\u003e Likeness \u003cbr\u003e What'\u003cbr\u003es Called Love, Nashville, TN \u003cbr\u003e Our Parents'\u003cbr\u003e Death \u003cbr\u003e Crime Scene \u003cbr\u003e To the Page \u003cbr\u003e Aubade for Every Broken Thing, Union City, TN \u003cbr\u003e Orchids \u003cbr\u003e Extinct Clouds \u003cbr\u003e Overwater \u003cbr\u003e Finding the Falls \u003cbr\u003e Happiness \u003cbr\u003e In Security \u003cbr\u003e A Poem in Which the Family Is Not a Tragedy, Union City, TN \u003cbr\u003e Confessional \u003cbr\u003e Ghost Story \u003cbr\u003e Against the Season \u003cbr\u003e Choosing a Transitional Object \u003cbr\u003e The Problem with Beauty \u003cbr\u003e Columbarium \u003cbr\u003e The Lipstick Lounge \u003cbr\u003e To My Mother'\u003cbr\u003es Ex-Husband \u003cbr\u003e Genealogy \u003cbr\u003e Out of the Woods \u003cbr\u003e Untitled \u003cbr\u003e At Love'\u003cbr\u003es Truck Stop, Laramie, WY \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Thank Yous\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Books 2","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667964184,"sku":"9780810148338","price":13.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mud-in-our-mouths-poems-paperback-softback-9780810148338","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}