{"product_id":"good-boys-poems","title":"Good Boys: Poems","description":"In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes's \u003cem\u003eGood Boys\u003c\/em\u003e offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging--just barely--on the trains and bridges and bar stools of New York City. A child of the Indian Ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the \"hydrogen fruit\" of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy.","brand":"Megan Fernandes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793304617002,"sku":"9781947793408","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/good-boys-poems-1871487.jpg?v=1762151254","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/good-boys-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}