{"product_id":"lonely-women-make-good-lovers-9781960145451","title":"Lonely Women Make Good Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe daring and deeply\u003cbr\u003esexy poems in \u003ci\u003eLonely Women Make Good Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e are bold with the\u003cbr\u003eembodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese\u003cbr\u003eunforgettable love poems--queer, complicated, and almost always\u003cbr\u003ecompromised--engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses\u003cbr\u003eof unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question \"defined not by\u003cbr\u003ewhat we \/ cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves.\" These\u003cbr\u003epoems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an \"I\"\u003cbr\u003ethat is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives\u003cbr\u003ewith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ethis book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the\u003cbr\u003efetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at\u003cbr\u003eothers self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the\u003cbr\u003edifficulties and joys of living in relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781960145451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Keetje Kuipers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187174596789,"sku":"9781960145451","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6a910837-d9a9-4d81-bfe3-59f8a3624594.jpg?v=1742271350","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lonely-women-make-good-lovers-9781960145451","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}