{"product_id":"pulp-paperback-1","title":"Pulp - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Dean  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's pulp fiction: true crime, true confessions, true romance, and these are titles of poems in this wonderful collection titled \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e. Magazines with these titles are meant to be lurid and lure the reader in to turning the pages. But the poet\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eRobert Dean mixes in the supernatural of misplaced things and feelings, so his poems become exquisitely crafted page turners that is poetry at its finest. What is pulp but something formless, perhaps beat to a pulp in some dark alley of the soul, but the pulp in Pulp is urgent to find form, a desire longing for its ultimate manifestation, for its object in order to express and contain the longing that is simultaneously the promise of resurrecting love and a drop by drop drowning in thirst for love. Pulp is loss, in the closing line of the poem \"True Romance\" \u003cem\u003edripping with the absence of you\u003c\/em\u003e. The language of these poems is sharp, colorful, and electric as in \"The Tear\" ...\u003cem\u003erivering my heart down the Rushmore of your cheek\u003c\/em\u003e. This book is haunted by love or love refused and love lost. Doors slam behind the person who is leaving and doors slam around the person who is left behind. All the entrances and exits are barricaded. The frustration morphs into violent imagery: \u003cem\u003eThe naked heart is a loaded gun.\u003c\/em\u003e He continues in the poem \"True Crime\" ...\u003cem\u003eWords chamber there \/ like shells, like bullets, waiting for the ventricular shotgun pump, \/ the vagus nerve hammer-cock that will load them into \/ the barrel of the throat, explode them from the muzzle of \/\/ the mouth, .... \u003c\/em\u003eAnd yet there is hope in these wounds in the possibility of surviving the hurt and the healing to come. In Pulp, Robert Dean\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ehas written an intense, tough book and declares love to be unrequitted: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly I go on forever, scratching. A cold, cold case. \u003c\/em\u003e(True Detective)\u003cstrong\u003e-Walter Bargen\u003c\/strong\u003e, first Poet Laureate of Missouri, author of \u003cem\u003ePole Dancing in the Night Club of God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDean knows well the night and jazz and detective novels and ancient China, and \u003cem\u003ePulp\u003c\/em\u003e showcases these disparate, but connected, sources-and a number more. Consummately intelligent (and witty), Dean wears his learning lightly, but gives us a short tour of the darkness (and light) in his skull-and also the depths of his large large heart.\u003cstrong\u003e-Kevin Rabas\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMore Than Words, \u003c\/em\u003e Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019\u003cbr\u003eRobert Dean's book Pulp inspires, confounds, and amuses. He shifts perspectives often as he considers Icarus's mother and Bela Lugosi, for a few media stars. Dean's contemporary mashup mixes unexpected debris of the 21st century and elevates it into compelling lyric. This is a fun book.-\u003cstrong\u003eDenise Low\u003c\/strong\u003e, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718719082559,"sku":"9781646628902","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/418b7a906179470174f5ca3214e58883.webp?v=1765083000","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/pulp-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}