{"id":11398,"date":"2018-05-31T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=11398"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:20:33","slug":"darling-monica-ferrell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/darling-monica-ferrell\/","title":{"rendered":"You Darling Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-22-8<\/p>\n

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You Darling Thing<\/em><\/h1>\n

Monica Ferrell<\/h2>\n

A Finalist for The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.<\/h5>\n
On Library Journal’s “Top Fall Poetry: Books Beyond the Basics To Fire Up Your Imagination”<\/a> List.<\/h5>\n
A finalist for The Believer Book Award.<\/h5>\n

A book-length meditation on courtship and the language of endearment, the social promise of marriage as a type of fulfillment, as well as the tension between a desire to be alone and a desire to not be lonely.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Guided by a poem assembled from “compliments” paid by a suitor to his girlfriend (which echo the endearments Anna\u00a0Karenina’s Count Vronsky directs toward his racehorse, before she collapses under his weight and is shot), You Darling Thing\u00a0<\/em>investigates bridehood and the concept of the vow through the voices of a variety of brides, ex-brides, courtesans, and wives. The book is ultimately less about marriage than about potentiality and promise, an engagement with what seems possible before it stops being possible—embryos that stay unborn, youthful predictions for a life before it’s lived, and delight in the expressive possibilities\u00a0 afforded by language and art.<\/p>\n

SAVAGE BRIDE from You Darling Thing<\/em><\/p>\n

You need me like ice needs the mountain
\nOn which it breeds. Like print needs the page.
\nYou move in me like the tongue in a mouth,
\nLike wind in the leaves of summer trees,
\nGust-fists, hollow except of movement and desire
\nWhich is movement. You taste me the way the claws
\nOf a pigeon taste that window ledge on which it sits,
\nThe way water tastes rust in the pipes it shuttles through
\nBeneath a city, unfolding and luminous with industry.
\nBefore you were born, the table of elements
\nWas lacking, and I as a noble gas floated
\nFree of attachment. Before you were born,
\nThe sun and the moon were paper-thin plates
\nSome machinist at his desk merely clicked into place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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