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2412675Fair Day in an Ancient Town: Poemshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/fair-day-in-an-ancient-town-poems-9781942083238/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3166359/98b68466-ff07-4d1f-9c74-12b639658486.jpg?v=638384970836100000135135MXNBrain Mill PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>"Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorfs work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again."</p><p>Aliki Barnstone, author of Bright Body</p><p>Its April now, complains Allendorfs speaker, and still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.</p><p>The poems of Fair Day in An Ancient Town subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitmans darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasiesor the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M&Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. O, the way his mouth confounded me / and folded on my mouth there in the fold, slyly sings one of Allendorfs shepherds songs, O, the glory of his hairy arms, / the way they lit my eyes a little then.</p><p>Layering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deepand then find a way to be alone under the covers.</p><p>"With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speakand continue speakinggenuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century."</p><p>Scott Cairns, author of Idiot Psalms</p>...2348691Fair Day in an Ancient Town: Poems135135https://www.gandhi.com.mx/fair-day-in-an-ancient-town-poems-9781942083238/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3166359/98b68466-ff07-4d1f-9c74-12b639658486.jpg?v=638384970836100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781942083238_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9781942083238_<p>"Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorf's work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again."</p><p>—Aliki Barnstone, author of Bright Body</p><p>It's April now, complains Allendorf's speaker, and still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.</p><p>The poems of Fair Day in An Ancient Town subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitman's darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasies—or the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M&Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. O, the way his mouth confounded me / and folded on my mouth there in the fold, slyly sings one of Allendorf's shepherd's songs, O, the glory of his hairy arms, / the way they lit my eyes a little then.</p><p>Layering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deep—and then find a way to be alone under the covers.</p><p>"With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speak—and continue speaking—genuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century."</p><p>—Scott Cairns, author of Idiot Psalms</p>(*_*)9781942083238_<p>"Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorfs work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again."</p><p>Aliki Barnstone, author of Bright Body</p><p>Its April now, complains Allendorfs speaker, and still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning.</p><p>The poems of Fair Day in An Ancient Town subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitmans darkly clever younger brother. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasiesor the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M&Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. O, the way his mouth confounded me / and folded on my mouth there in the fold, slyly sings one of Allendorfs shepherds songs, O, the glory of his hairy arms, / the way they lit my eyes a little then.</p><p>Layering complex form, rhyme, and craft over lush horniness and hard wit, Allendorf effortlessly upends romantic poetry and exposes it to the twenty-first century. This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deepand then find a way to be alone under the covers.</p><p>"With uncommon linguistic acuity [. . .] and a delightfully original voice, Greg Allendorf offers up poems that speakand continue speakinggenuine longing, and the insistent ache of love. These are necessary poems for our young century."</p><p>Scott Cairns, author of Idiot Psalms</p>...9781942083238_Brain Mill Presslibro_electonico_79992dfb-25f7-3e55-af37-da7bf5987a46_9781942083238;9781942083238_9781942083238Greg AllendorfInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/draft2digital_ipp-epub-2496dd04-c50f-464e-8c04-19deafc75bdb.epub2016-02-14T00:00:00+00:00Brain Mill Press