{"id":1352,"date":"2017-05-25T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1352"},"modified":"2024-12-20T23:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:35:50","slug":"you-have-to-laugh-by-mairead-byrne","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/product\/you-have-to-laugh-by-mairead-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>You Have to Laugh<\/em>, Mair\u00e9ad Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New and Selected Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Irish emigrant poet Mair\u00e9ad Byrne\u2019s provocative and unhinged <em>You Have to Laugh<\/em> showcases, for the first time in one volume, more than twenty years of groundbreaking poetry that ranges from taut lyrics, sustained narratives, prose and occasional poems, to high-wired sound texts. Byrne\u2019s brash energy, wry quips, and engaged bittersweet critiques of the overinflated language of consumerism and world-weariness elevate these poems from the laugh-out-loud funny toward understated pathos. The way the work integrates high cultural references with spoken-word intensity, while the syntax swerves with wildly varied diction, is sure to attract a wide audience even as it undermines easy categorization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think what I like most about Byrne\u2019s poetry is that it makes me laugh like a monkey (baring my teeth, mad with fear, involuntary, like something being electrocuted) and like a human being (subsiding into my chair, telephoning someone to read it to them straight away) at the same time.<br \/>\n\u2014Luke Kennard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mair\u00e9ad Byrne\u2019s poetry is linguistically dazzling, each poem a tactile ecstasy.<br \/>\n\u2014Deborah Tall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applicable bookseller\/retail discount on bulk orders of 10+ copies automatically applied at checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1352","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}