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Good Want
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781552454824
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
These are lush, provocative poems that luxuriate in unexpected detail while examining how economic precarity shapes both shame and desire. Firmly rooted in the working class, Martinello explores the hunger we inherit from our ancestors, what it means to indulge from a position of bottomless want, and to 'Waste not your wanting.' With impressive range, a sense of humor, and entrancing musicality, Good Want is a celebration of the gluttony of girlhood, the paradoxes of faith, and everyday pleasures of a small, specific life. - Cassidy McFadzean, author of Crying Dress
Good Want is a baroque painting of Dutch aristocracy, but all the subjects' garments are secretly from Walmart. I mean this in the best way. Each poem cracks me open and out shines a never-before-seen shade of light. - Shy Watson, author of Cheap Yellow
Sometimes the confessor reckons with the confessional. In Good Want, it's a wracking and lucky sometimes, full of piss and vinegar, and one that finds Domenica Martinello performing the wonderment, the depth and push and pull, between what there is to reveal and what each revelation ruptures or binds. Happily, sadly, the poet scours a life lived and unearths inheritances, burdens, and selves destined for and not for the telling. And tells them brilliantly as she pleases. - D.M. Bradford, author of Bottom Rail on Top
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