{"product_id":"dear-mothership-poems-9780063487697-new","title":"Dear Mothership: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMaybe the Saddest Thing \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSilencer\u003c\/i\u003e comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDear Mothership\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision of poet Robert Hayden to chart a course through personal and political upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection's centerpiece is the \"Break Beat Crown\"--Wicker's original take on the heroic crown of sonnets--presented as a travelogue from an extraterrestrial who has touched down in modern-day Atlanta. Across linked poems, the outsider records field notes on pandemic discord, isolation, tenderness, late-stage capitalism, empathy, and art. The longer the speaker inhabits a dysfunctional society, the more alien he feels. In addition to these science fictional experiments, Wicker delivers affecting, personal poems grounded in lived experience: lingering grief over two miscarriages, the sudden death of a friend, a sustained search for joy on the other side of those heartbreaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its singular imagination, \u003ci\u003eDear Mothership \u003c\/i\u003ekindles a new understanding of what makes us most human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67413294514466,"sku":"9780063487697-new","price":15.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780063487697.jpg?v=1790830121","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/dear-mothership-poems-9780063487697-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}