Dear Mothership: Poems, (Audiobook)

<p><b>From the author of <i>Maybe the Saddest Thing </i>and <i>Silencer</i> comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.</b></p><p>In <i>Dear Mothership</i>, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision of poet Robert Hayden to chart a course through personal and political upheaval.</p><p>The collection's centerpiece is the "Break Beat Crown"--Wicker's original take on the heroic crown of sonnets--presented as a travelogue from an extraterrestrial who has touched down in modern-day Atlanta. Across linked poems, the outsider records field notes on pandemic discord, isolation, tenderness, late-stage capitalism, empathy, and art. The longer the speaker inhabits a dysfunctional society, the more alien he feels. In addition to these science fictional experiments, Wicker delivers affecting, personal poems grounded in lived experience: lingering grief over two miscarriages, the sudden death of a friend, a sustained search for joy on the other side of those heartbreaks.</p><p>With its singular imagination, <i>Dear Mothership </i>kindles a new understanding of what makes us most human.</p>

• Dear Mothership: Poems, (Audiobook)
• Author: HarperCollins
• ISBN: 9798228986152
• Format: Audiobook
• Publication Date: 2026-09-08
• Page Count: 0