{"title":"Poetry by Jendi Reiter","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"introvert-pervert-poems-jendi-reiter-paperback","title":"Introvert Pervert","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. This fourth collection from transmasculine poet Jendi Reiter brilliantly blends the sly, the sincere, and the sting of hard realities held close. Whether talking back to God, Tony Soprano, or their adolescent child, the speakers of these poems work through pain to find wisdom, humor, and grace. Says Denise Duhamel, \"Reiter's Introvert Pervert is politically personal and personally political, bursting with post-confessional wit and tenderness. The poems 'confess' in therapists' offices, both 'real' and imagined (e.g. Dr. Jennifer Melfi from The Sopranos). A woman becomes a man, a child becomes a parent with a delightfully neo-surrealist intolerance for intolerance, school shootings, banned books, and the tortured children of Palestine.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuhamel muses, \"Is to love all creatures perverse? Then I'm a pervert too! Jendi Reiter ventures behind the hideously perverse headlines and turns to poetry where the real truth lives. They write poems about all the ways our complicated lives have been further complicated by hate. And this introvert pervert\/poet isn't going to take it, isn't going down without a cuddle.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemi Recchia adds, \"Few poets can alchemize potty humor, incest survivorship, and pop culture and render the creation into YHWH-facing art. But Jendi Reiter can. In \u003cem\u003eIntrovert Pervert\u003c\/em\u003e, be it through cruising erasures or an homage to Tony Soprano, the speaker dips his toe into a lake that was once frozen, a 'river of jawbones' or 'the flood with the carnivores' and their 'reptilian sludge.' The undertow-a strained but evolving marriage, 'people' who 'love sunrises and want me dead, ' the memory of a mother unmothering-is mighty, but the poet's tide is stronger. What the speaker calls a 'blunt instinct to worship, ' the reader might, and should, call an honor to witness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jendi Reiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44289023082538,"sku":"9781944585921","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/introvert-pervert-poems-by-jendi-reiter-paperback-3315350.jpg?v=1777252649"},{"product_id":"bullies-in-love-poems-jendi-reiter-paperback","title":"Bullies in Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bullies in Love\" by Jendi Reiter is a remarkable book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn praise, Nancy White, administrator of The Word Works Washington Prize, said, \"How can one voice be so raw and so refined? How can a poet so fiercely female speak more universally than those who deny our differences? The electrifying paradoxes of art and life snap from every page here as Reiter names the driving forces of her life-our lives.\" ---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Bondhus, author of \"All the Heat We Could Carry\" (Main Street Rag, 2013), said, \"Lyric, narrative, prose poem...in all her work Jendi Reiter is constantly innovating, injecting her lines with fresh, sharp language and taut, piercing images which yes, surprise, exhilarate, and delight, but also force the reader to rethink their relationships to social forces. The nature of love and desire are here, but so are family, faith, the body, the natural world, pop culture...even a few stray cats. Jendi explores these as both priestess and stand-up comedian, deploying reverence and humor (sometimes at the same time), and gazing upon whimsy and atrocity with equal scrutiny.\"---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Thompson, author of \"Woman with Crows,\" commented: \"Bitter, tender, contained, full of pain and hilarity, this fiercely intelligent collection begins with one of the most beautiful poems I have ever read. 'Inconsolable joy, ' Reiter writes to her newborn son. 'Motherless, I mother.' Within this grace all questions resolve: 'Each glinting wavelet a day of my history, \/washing my hands as I lose it.' The history to be known and released includes childhood abuse, and cruelties both familial and social...In these poems, theology becomes concrete and passionate\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jendi Reiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44289029505066,"sku":"9781935656364","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/bullies-in-love-poems-by-jendi-reiter-paperback-6077771.jpg?v=1777252649"},{"product_id":"made-man-poems-jendi-reiter-paperback","title":"Made Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eFull of fun and full of anguish, superbly conscious of every rule they break, Jendi Reiter's third poetry collection explores female-to-male transition and gay masculine identity through the voices of unusual objects and fictional characters with some aspect that is constructed, technological, or hybrid. From a surrealist's eggbeater discovering feminist consciousness, or a pastry box enforcing omertà, to the Nicene Creed as interpreted by Frankenstein, these startling life studies open up onto a broader consideration of humanity's relationship with technology and the shadow side of male dominance of nature. Illustrated with original paintings by graphic designer and multimedia artist Tom Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jendi Reiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44289030881322,"sku":"9781935656661","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/made-man-poems-by-jendi-reiter-paperback-5975262.jpg?v=1777252650"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/poetry-by-jendi-reiter.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}