{"title":"Kendra DeColo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKendra DeColo\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a captivating exploration into the nuances of contemporary arts and culture. Her works blend sharp wit with insightful narrative, providing readers with engaging and often unexpected perspectives on modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can anticipate stories infused with humour and candid reflections, inviting them to reconsider cultural norms and personal experiences through a uniquely vibrant lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"my-dinner-with-ron-jeremy-by-kendra-decolo-9780991336142","title":"My Dinner with Ron Jeremy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by some as \"erotica for feminists,\" and \"enemy to family values,\" DeColo's poems convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox News after you've masturbated too many times, depleted and filled with fascination and terror. Balancing tenderness with ferocity, cynicism with wonder, DeColo's poems disrupt and reclaim misogynistic language, creating a lyricism that dazzles and swoons, hoping to leave a stain deep enough to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Kendra DeColo's extraordinary second collection, \u003cem\u003eMy Dinner With Ron Jeremy\u003c\/em\u003e, live in the sinuous space between want and propriety, fantasy and the 'Must Be 18' button on the poetry portal. There's love here, too, and John Coltrane, and abandonment in all its necessary circumstances, but sex is both brilliant talisman and vacant harbinger through it all. This often humorous, always provocative book puts a neon backlight on the filaments between what we have, what we have to do, and what we wish we could do, whether we can rewind and watch it again or not. – Adrian Matejka, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Big Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e, a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marvelous poetry ... poems that would make great feature films.\" – Ron Jeremy, Actor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sex-positive feminist verse... DeColo manages to coax beauty and meaning from the absurd aching morass of human existence. It's not every writer who can emerge from these corners with anything approaching grace, much less deft and bracing poems such as these.\" – \u003cem\u003eThe Nashville Scene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[DeColo's] work is ferocious and tender, demolishing patriarchal language and using the fragments to build riotous new worlds.\" – \u003cem\u003eBitch Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597282525420,"sku":"9780991336142","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/09b88a9eafc118a0a11b78eac994fcac.jpg?v=1777954533"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/kendra-decolo.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}