{"product_id":"9781593765040","title":"Slanky : Poems and Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eCult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky, a black-comic stroll through the demimonde of pop culture and modern urban life. Doughty's poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in \"For Charlotte, Unlisted,\" he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49648115548387,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781593765040-1.jpg?v=1788396885","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781593765040","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}