{"product_id":"what-flies-want-poems-9781609388430","title":"What Flies Want: Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWhat Flies Want\u003c\/i\u003e, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The speaker, who grew up in a bicultural family on the U.S.\/Mexico border, learns she must play a role in a culture that prizes whiteness, patriarchy, and chauvinism. As an adult she oscillates between performed confidence and obedience. As a wife, she bristles against the expectations of emotional labor. As a mother, she attempts to direct her white male children away from the toxic power they are positioned to inherit, only to find how deeply she is also implicated in these systems. Tangled in a family history of depression, a society fixated on guns, a rocky relationship, and her own desire to ignore and deny the problems she must face, this is a speaker who is by turns defiant, defeated, self-implicating, and hopeful. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pérez, Emily\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs","brand":"Emily Pérez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39746414477387,"sku":"9781609388430","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_dfb1c56a-2c75-488e-9025-ec5bbdf9f7c9.jpg?v=1650986018","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/what-flies-want-poems-9781609388430","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}