{"product_id":"cow-stomach-and-mother-fat","title":"Cow Stomach and Mother Fat","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Steve Halle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Veliz Books (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his second full-length poetry collection \u003cem\u003eCow Stomach and Mother Fat\u003c\/em\u003e, Steve Halle interrogates how our innermost selves emerge from time immemorial to navigate conditional economies of being. Written and refined over a fourteen-year span, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eCow Stomach and Mother Fat\u003c\/em\u003e employs the dramatis personae of Cow Stomach, Mother Fat, and Ensu Fario, whose monologues and verses use dark comedy to explore ideas of hunger, needfulness, want, desire, and love; emergence and formation of being and identity; how human and nonhuman persons are intertwined and enmeshed in precarious systems; toxicity\/toxic masculinity; monstrousness; formlessness; and the politicization and regulation of gender, among other subjects. Halle’s poetry blends aggressive incantatory prose poem streams with softer lyrical flights and stylized design elements to create a sui generis work that reckons with the seemingly sacred forces that may be misused to commodify our most intimate interrelationships.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asterism","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44105638838371,"sku":"9781949776232","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/cowstomach.jpg?v=1775594959","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/cow-stomach-and-mother-fat","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}