Synopses & Reviews
The Smell of Good Mud explores the grit and splendor of collective living, queer parenting and other radical choices in the conservative landscape of Oklahoma. Lauren Zuniga has made a name for herself for fearlessly confronting legislators and being an ambassador for the Heartland. This collection is the underbelly. No emotion is spared. No image is lost. It is a field guide to blisters and curtsies. It is a chronicle of women/children/animals coming together in a house named Clementine.
Synopsis
The Smell of Good Mud explores the grit and splendor of collective living, queer parenting and other radical choices in the conservative landscape of Oklahoma.
Lauren Zuniga has made a name for herself for fearlessly confronting legislators and being an ambassador for the Heartland.
This collection is the underbelly. No emotion is spared. No image is lost. It is a field guide to blisters and curtsies. It is a chronicle of women/children/animals coming together in a house named Clementine.
Synopsis
Zuniga, nationally acclaimed for her powerful poem "To the Oklahoma Lawmakers," hailed as a riveting message about the war on women, presents her latest collection of poetry, The Smell of Good Mud.
In this evocative work, she ventures into the untamed landscape of queer, feminist, collective living in Oklahoma, a conservative state.
Within the walls of Clementine, a house with its own soul, these poems serve a communal meal, kindle a radiant love affair, and unravel the inner carnival of a single mother's heart.
Synopsis
Nationally acclaimed for her poem, To The Oklahoma Lawmakers, which MoveOn.org called The most riveting message about the war on women in under three minutes, Zuniga's newest collection of poetry, The Smell of Good Mud, explores the wild terrain of queer, feminist, collective living in the conservative state of Oklahoma. Set in a house named Clementine, these poems offer a communal meal, a radiant love affair and the inner carnival of a single mother.