{"product_id":"the-romance-of-happy-workers-9781566892148","title":"The Romance of Happy Workers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exciting new American poet harvests fields of sound from the seeds of her bucolic vocabulary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Romance of Happy Workers\u003c\/i\u003e swaggers through a world of cowboys, conquistadors, comrades, and housewives with mock-Russian lyric sequences and Keatsian swoon. Political and iconoclastic, Anne Boyer’s poems dally in pastoral camp and a dizzying, delightful array of sights and sounds born from the dust of the Kansas plains where dinner for two is cooked in Fire King and served on depression ware, and where bawdy instructions for a modern “Home on the Range” read:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mix a drink of stock lot:\u003cbr\u003evermouth and the water table.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the bar will smell of IBP.\u003cbr\u003eAnd you will lick my Laura Ingalls.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Boyer’s heartland, “Surfaces should be worn. Lamps should smolder. \/ Dahlias do bloom like tumors. The birds do rise like bombs.” And the once bright and now crumbling populism of Marxists, poets, and folksingers springs vividly back to life as realism, idealism, and nostalgia do battle amongst the silos and ditchweed.","brand":"Anne Boyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956059213942,"sku":"9781566892148","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e859521e-b9dc-4101-bd2d-320560fd1c51.jpg?v=1767712187","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/the-romance-of-happy-workers-9781566892148","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}