{"product_id":"where-you-live","title":"Where You Live","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartinis and fantastic breasts. A wild wedding hangover. Pink angora and \u003cem\u003einstructing six women \/ to write tercets on snow\u003c\/em\u003e. In lesbian love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, Jill McDonough's second book tells where we live, and how: \u003cem\u003eeach day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce\/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eOften frankly autobiographical, her poems are also peopled with others' stories. Some are familiar – Cary Grant and Charles Darwin, Sappho and Hildegard von Bingen. Others we come to know: prison inmates Julie and Andrea, friends comforting in kitchens or riotous in the yard, the little Chinese lady from the Lucky Star kiosk. McDonough is honest with them: stitches their actual words into her poems, understands their motives and her own. This poetry is vivid with reality, even where the subjects are pictures: Mary in an illuminated Annunciation \u003cem\u003esuspicious \/ in her lapis robes, her double chin doubting, perhaps \/ one eyebrow raised; or a small, unseemly Venus, hair in pearls\u003c\/em\u003e holding the dead Adonis and \u003cem\u003efurious at death and grief.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eAbove all there are poems of love and desire – \u003cem\u003eI, Jill McDonough, have something to declare: je t'aime, je t'adore, Josey\u003c\/em\u003e – ardent, funny, and erotically charged:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eFor better or worse. For root\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003ecanal, for laughing on the high\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003espeed ferry to the cape. My mouth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eon your neck, say. My hand on your\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eemerald-cut calf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223572730200,"sku":"9781844719099","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781844719099.jpg?v=1778506241","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/where-you-live","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}