{"product_id":"i-am-not-trying-to-hide-my-hungers-from-the-world","title":"I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1765975125\u0026amp;color=%23a0bcc5\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"\u0026quot;Love Poem in the Style of Jordan's Furniture\u0026quot; by Kendra DeColo\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/love-poem-in-the-style-of-jordans-furniture-by-kendra-decolo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Love Poem in the Style of Jordan's Furniture\" by Kendra DeColo\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Best Southern Books of April 2021\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Kendra DeColo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I have always loved Kendra DeColo’s poems, so it’s no surprise that I love this new book, \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World\u003c\/i\u003e. But I love it \u003ci\u003eso\u003c\/i\u003e much. DeColo somehow manages to write poems that are equal parts swagger and soft, equal parts holler and prayer. Poems that are irreverent and dead serious, playful and pained, built of precise and impeccable and raucous music. Poems wonderful and strange and luminous, as is everything when you look, when you \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e, as hard, and beautifully, as DeColo does.” \u003cb\u003e—Ross Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The great magic of Kendra DeColo's poems has always felt, to me, like she knows something you also know, even if you don't know that you know it. Not just a movie, but a specific moment from a movie. A commercial you might not remember. Each of her poems reveals something about how one memory can become shared. Through joy, through terror, through rage. There is a generosity that flows through this book, not just in the intimate poems about giving life and then caring for a life, but also the poems that slowly, gently circle food courts, or open with off-brand granola bars. This book and these poems are a true testament to how intimacy and generosity can take as many forms as a writer needs you to see them in.” \u003cb\u003e—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eA Fortune for Your Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of glorious, powerful, dare I say iconic poems blew through me like strong weather. I felt electric, inspired and understood. Kendra DeColo writes about the body, motherhood and desire as sites for intense transformation, and having read them, I feel transformed.” \u003cb\u003e—Michelle Tea, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623983304933,"sku":"9781950774272","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623983337701,"sku":"9781950774273","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/IAmNotTryingToHideMyHungers_FIN_R2_LO.jpg?v=1609875826","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/i-am-not-trying-to-hide-my-hungers-from-the-world","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}