{"title":"Rachel Turney","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"retired-wannabe-club-kid-stories-from-the-international-club-scene-odes-to-the-best-party-cities-in-the-world-and-love-poems-to-the-night-hardcover","title":"Retired Wannabe Club Kid: Stories from the international club scene, odes to the best party cities in the world, and love poems to the night. - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRe: Letter of Resignation From a Wannabe Club Kid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo all the eyes that have watched me dance from those of the moon to the boy in the corner at House of Yes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you for the wild nights and the water washing over me. Thank you for the moonlight and the laughter. I loved the lights of Paris and watching the sunrise in Brooklyn. Berlin, you were the night to me. I am leaving Earth now. I am moving to Orbit City. Maybe, I will be back sometime. But to be honest, I doubt it. The memories will sustain me. I will think of you in that little time between sleep and awake, in the space between the stars. You will be in my dreams. Your thumping music, your chaos, the feeling of euphoria. Goodnight to the clubs, to the beaches, to the full moon parties. Goodnight to the rooftops, to the jets, to the boats. Goodnight to the raves and the discos. I am off in my flying car to the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStay ferocious, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired Wannabe Club Kid \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRetired Wannabe Club Kid\u003c\/em\u003e features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378727813343,"sku":"9781961206311","price":31.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WaWfw8hbrF9781961206311.webp?v=1789261597"},{"product_id":"retired-wannabe-club-kid-paperback","title":"Retired Wannabe Club Kid - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRe: Letter of Resignation From a Wannabe Club Kid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo all the eyes that have watched me dance from those of the moon to the boy in the corner at House of Yes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you for the wild nights and the water washing over me. Thank you for the moonlight and the laughter. I loved the lights of Paris and watching the sunrise in Brooklyn. Berlin, you were the night to me. I am leaving Earth now. I am moving to Orbit City. Maybe, I will be back sometime. But to be honest, I doubt it. The memories will sustain me. I will think of you in that little time between sleep and awake, in the space between the stars. You will be in my dreams. Your thumping music, your chaos, the feeling of euphoria. Goodnight to the clubs, to the beaches, to the full moon parties. Goodnight to the rooftops, to the jets, to the boats. Goodnight to the raves and the discos. I am off in my flying car to the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStay ferocious, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired Wannabe Club Kid \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired Wannabe Club Kid features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378769592543,"sku":"9781961206373","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/E5RJbvRZMt9781961206373.webp?v=1789261692"},{"product_id":"record-player-life-the-b-side-paperback","title":"Record Player Life (the b-side) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecord Player Life spins through the intimate, the strange, and the deeply human. Rachel's poems wander through neighborhoods and airports, hospitals and city streets, kitchens, cemeteries, and distant landscapes. They capture the small rituals that hold a life together: the sound of a train passing, or a cup of coffee cooling on a Saturday morning. Yet beneath these ordinary scenes lies a restless mind asking larger questions about identity, loss, time, and what it means to keep living after life fractures. Like the unexpected songs on the reverse side of a beloved album, these poems surprise, unsettle, and linger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Both self-aware and self-assured, Rachel Turney's latest collection of poetry, Record Player Life (the b-side), is literature I didn't know I needed. Narrative in nature (think Frank O'Hara), it is confessional at times. Wonderfully irreverent in many of the same moments, it is also serious, even meditative, at others. Turney's gift with, and command of, language is on full display. Here, there is no dearth of lines I didn't write but wish I could have, ones I felt to my core and know will stay with me long after: \"I don't believe in god. \/ This phrase could have saved me \/ from a multitude of Sunday mornings\" and \"In the United States the dead are put in carefully chosen outfits and people can come and look \/ at them in an expensive casket.\" Not so much a read as an experience (and a rewarding one at that), Turney's poetry, like any good vinyl, needs to be played again and again. What could be more fittingly said of a collection titled Record Player Life (the b-side)?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Jonathan Fletcher, award winning author of This is My Body \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378777456863,"sku":"9782488467001","price":15.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/l46sR9Bb_X9782488467001_58ed5b53-94b2-44b0-b89b-32f4f8b75a54.webp?v=1789261718"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/rachel-turney.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}