{"product_id":"good-want-paperback","title":"Good Want - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDomenica Martinello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Want\u003c\/i\u003e entertains the notion that perhaps virtue is a myth that's outgrown its uses. Exploring the value and shame ascribed to our desires both silly and serious - artistic, superficial, spiritual, relational - these poems grapple with deeply rooted questions: How can there be a relationship between goodness and godliness, if god is a character with shifting allegiances and priorities? Is clarity worth the pain of redefining your experience of the world? Is privacy the same as secrecy the same as deceit? Each caveat becomes a prayer, ritual, invocation, dream, or confession, requiring a blind faith that feels increasingly more impossible to sustain. \u003ci\u003eGood Want\u003c\/i\u003e looks inward, at once both sincere and tongue-in-cheek, to confront the hum of class and intergenerational trauma. Playing with and deconstructing received notions of 'good, ' 'bad, ' and 'god, ' these poems open up a series of further possibilities: empathy for difficult people, acceptance of our difficult selves, and joy in every difficult thing.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These are lush, provocative poems that luxuriate in unexpected detail while examining how economic precarity shapes both shame and desire. Firmly rooted in the working class, Martinello explores the hunger we inherit from our ancestors, what it means to indulge from a position of bottomless want, and to 'Waste not your wanting.' With impressive range, a sense of humor, and entrancing musicality, \u003ci\u003eGood Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of the gluttony of girlhood, the paradoxes of faith, and everyday pleasures of a \"small, specific life.\" - \u003cb\u003eCassidy McFadzean, author of \u003ci\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a baroque painting of Dutch aristocracy, but all the subjects' garments are secretly from Walmart. I mean this in the best way. Each poem cracks me open and out shines a never-before-seen shade of light.\" - \u003cb\u003eShy Watson, author of \u003ci\u003eCheap Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes the confessor reckons with the confessional. In \u003ci\u003eGood Want\u003c\/i\u003e, it's a wracking and lucky sometimes, full of piss and vinegar, and one that finds Domenica Martinello performing the wonderment, the depth and push and pull, between what there is to reveal and what each revelation ruptures or binds. Happily, sadly, the poet scours a life lived and unearths inheritances, burdens, and selves destined for and not for the telling. And tells them brilliantly as she pleases.\" - \u003cb\u003eD.M. Bradford, author of \u003ci\u003eBottom Rail on Top\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomenica Martinello holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry. She currently lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695427326015,"sku":"9781552454824","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/26af2289d296f27b9006b1e4de153e55.webp?v=1765003770","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/good-want-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}