{"product_id":"natch-9780872868106","title":"Natch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQueer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophia Dahlin’s first full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eNatch,\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling array of queer erotic lyrics demanding pasture in the romantic sublime. By turns dreamy, hysterical, earthy, and perverse, the poems of \u003ci\u003eNatch\u003c\/i\u003e speak the dialogue of a person’s parts, the dynamism of a queer body desiring something between rest and consumption. In her stunningly assured voice, compounded of bravado and vulnerability, Dahlin outlines the threshold where feeling takes over the body’s functioning, desire leads us past deciding, and we are so lustful that we are not dead when we have finished dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sophia Dahlin’s witty, searching, and multi-humored poems are astute and forthright in their light\/dark erotics. With the buoyancy that \u003ci\u003eNatch\u003c\/i\u003e suggests, this is also serious stuff. Refusing default logics, ingenious poetic powers are at play in these \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dahlin’s first full-length collection shows a vast array of queer pastoral lyric poems. They are by turns funny, erotic, longing, passionate, brave, and vulnerable.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world of \u003cem\u003eNatch\u003c\/em\u003e is, in part, an old world. A world where horny herdspeople take a break and steal time from their lords by exchanging dirty verses with each other. But [Sophia Dahlin's] work doesn’t founder in nostalgia. Dahlin’s poems are for our time, for our yucky and seductive mouths and lips, and we should all be stealing hours from our lords to revel in it. Somewhere between ancient pastoral tradition and the very present-tense erotic vocabulary of her life as a lover, Dahlin brings enormous musical sensuality, romantic intelligence, and impressive wit in these marvelous poems.\"—\u003cb\u003eBrandon Brown, \u003cem\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNatch\u003c\/em\u003e ventures that to hurl oneself towards such risk is part of a commitment to a life built and shared with others, a politics originating at the most intimate scale. This terrain of love—particularly queer and non-exclusive love—is what Dahlin, in Natch, holds her eye and ear to. She revels in its joys and anguishes, its glints of a world arranged differently, in poems that veer with sudden tenderness and bustle with delight. … \u003cem\u003eNatch\u003c\/em\u003e would have it no other way: the satisfaction of getting is amplified by the ecstasy of giving up, and the self's dis- and reintegration into a greater, more unknowable flow becomes a scale model for a revolutionary rearrangement of social and political life. What will this new world look like, where we are all each other's backs? Dahlin’s poems give us not the answer, but how that answer feels.\"—\u003cb\u003ePeter Myers, \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sophia Dahlin delivers beautiful, tactile motion in \u003cem\u003eNatch\u003c\/em\u003e. … There's a controlled delirium here, and it’s deliciously sexy.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] outstanding full-length debut collection. Dahlin's distinctive voice is at turns erotic, observant, experimental, and never humdrum.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eBay Area Reporter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Dahlin’s poetry, bodies, the objects that bodies touch, and the surrounding atmosphere melt into one another until it seems obvious that body\/object\/world are one discrete thing having a temporary experience of separateness. The landscape of Dahlin’s debut collection, \u003ci\u003eNatch\u003c\/i\u003e, is an idiosyncratic and languid ooze of domestic language. Words appear as verbs after the eye has already tried to parse them as nouns. The syntax one might expect from an ode or an aubade collapses and morphs into something similar but distinctly strange. It’s the sensation of drinking from the fountain of youth with a loop-de-loop straw—refreshing, playful, rejuvenating, and bouncy.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnulet: A Journal of Poetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNatch \u003c\/i\u003easks the question of how space unfolds in the distance between beloveds. These love poems introduce Catullun drama to Sapphic distance, coy and calculated in their flirtation. … As Dahlin’s aesthetic weds the we-want-it-all politics of Bay Area poets Diane di Prima and June Jordan with the medieval sexuality of Robert Glück, she builds a new world where money dissolves into its own overwrought impulses, desire cannot be tempered, and sex reigns supreme. \u003ci\u003eNatch\u003c\/i\u003e thrives on messiness, reminding us that desire must be leaned into, and to temper this impulse, to 'soften the want \/ is not neat.'\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Critical Flame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884897055063,"sku":"9780872868106","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natch-9780872868106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}