{"product_id":"dear-mothership-poems","title":"(09\/08\/26 PREORDER) Dear Mothership: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Dear Mothership, 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, Dear Mothership kindles a new understanding of what makes us most human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54501370528019,"sku":"9780063487697","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/1652\/7891\/files\/9780063487697.jpg?v=1785205312","url":"https:\/\/www.monsterasbooks.com\/products\/dear-mothership-poems","provider":"Monstera's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}