{"product_id":"fun-to-be-dead-the-poems-of-bob-flanagan","title":"Fun to be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first complete collection of Bob Flanagan’s poetry, edited by Sabrina Tarasoff and with contributions by Jack Skelley, Sheree Rose, Chiara Moioli, David Trinidad, Dodie Bellamy, and Dennis Cooper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCause for celebration: Bob Flanagan’s tortured, elegant poetry is finally back in print! Alive with carnality, love, abjection, relentless self-exposure and fatalist laughs, these poems are as fresh and stunning as when they were first written. Bob's work lays bare the eroticism of punishment and the punishing possibilities of the erotic. Every meticulously chosen word between these covers drips with blood, cum and tears.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Amy Gerstler, author of \u003cem\u003eIndex of Women\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBitter Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEarly Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBob Flanagan makes me sick and I love it. Is there a \u003c\/em\u003eright\u003cem\u003e way to be ill? I dunno. Probably you’re meant to keep quiet or frighten anybody too much, just be a strung-out angel in waiting, please. This is very much fucking not what Bob Flanagan did. He took his wrecked body, his pain, his urges and, yup, his death, everything that he was supposed to keep to himself, and he turned it into work that’s ferociously alive, hilarious, strange. In these poems, he’s singing to you in the back of the ambulance while the dogs prowl outside and ‘the sky glows orange like a match.’ It’s beautiful, it hurts.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e- Charlie Fox, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Young Monster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pep Talk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358056849748,"sku":"A8B-33979","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Scan_20240514_125543.jpg?v=1790813879","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/fun-to-be-dead-the-poems-of-bob-flanagan","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}