{"product_id":"exhibitionist-9781552454220","title":"Exhibitionist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be \u003ci\u003eseen\u003c\/i\u003e, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that you’ll still like her by the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Sticky, sad, and sultry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice cream, to fart at a dinner party, to sprawl out on a chaise lounge, stare through a dusty skylight and whisper that they think they may love you. And that love will be unmistakably mutual.” —Mallory Tater, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Birth Yard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Will Be Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Multiple orgasms appear in the first line of the first poem in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eExhibitionist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Multiple orgasms, as a relative image or a practice, elicit everything from mystical worship to moral panic. Molly Cross-Blanchard understands this diametric power. She nods to this power with countless crisp and explicit images throughout her debut collection. Read her poems first to marvel at the well-crafted voicing of sexuality. Read a second time to appreciate Cross-Blanchard’s beautiful charge of juxtaposition. Again and again, she places the erotic beside mundane so that both are transformed — a dirty basement carpet becomes the backdrop of profound intimacy and gas station coffee acts as a symbol of self-discovery.” –Amber Dawn, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Art is Killing Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"If this book had a fragrance, it'd be a Britney perfume, any one of them really, but with hints of prairie in the dry late-summer, notes of the sweet ocean smell that passes through Vancouver when the wind gets high, and a fabulous pair of overalls.” —Katherena Vermette, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiver Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Break\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Cross-Blanchard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308072153339,"sku":"9781552454220","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781552454220.jpg?v=1772484738","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/exhibitionist-9781552454220","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}