{"product_id":"dear-mothership-poems","title":"Dear Mothership (Poems)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Mothership\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith its singular imagination, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Mothership \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ekindles a new understanding of what makes us most human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marcus Wicker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48101755355190,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/9814\/3542\/files\/91GNv1YhBjL._SL1500.jpg?v=1791999740","url":"https:\/\/peabodybookemporium.com\/products\/dear-mothership-poems","provider":"Peabody Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}