{"product_id":"the-dinner-party-a-book-about-love-by-cat-fitzpatrick","title":"The Dinner Party: A Book about Love by Cat Fitzpatrick","description":"\u003cp\u003eCat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, The Call-Out--\u003cbr\u003e\na trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dinner Party returns to the chaotic and adorable world of trans femme. The title piece begins... \"The 'Rona being now at last abated,\" and continues with cameo portraits of the seven guests she plans to invite, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, as we had in days gone by.\u003cbr\u003e\nI asked Rakshasi, clad in black, so thin,\u003cbr\u003e\nSo eager for some trouble to get in,\u003cbr\u003e\nOf any kind, and Sophie, blunt and dry,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho often ended up the night so pissed\u003cbr\u003e\nShe'd trip and fall when climbing up the stairs,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd learned Bridget, sweet, beset by cares,\u003cbr\u003e\nWho always talks about her therapist --\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy besties. Plus I asked along a pair\u003cbr\u003e\nOf mascs: Adonis, such a charming youth,\u003cbr\u003e\nMore interested in beauty than in truth\u003cbr\u003e\nWho drives a motorbike and braids his hair,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Dominic, less young, but full of poise,\u003cbr\u003e\nA trickster with a most provoking grin,\u003cbr\u003e\nMore pleased with contradiction than with sin,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd even more with argument than boys,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoining \"The Dinner Party\" are several other themed pieces, including \"A Stay in the Country,\" a short arcadian pageant, \"Baby Book,\" about the trials and tribulations of making babies as queer and transsexual couples, \"Letter to Crabstick,\" an epistolatory friendship, and \"Uxorious Sonnets,\" a collection of eight love poems, among them Sonnet 6 in which she writes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eit's almost terrifying when we fuck\u003cbr\u003e\nhow there I am, how in that jostle and shove\u003cbr\u003e\nof flesh, my thoughts, that mostly run amuck,\u003cbr\u003e\ncontract to simply shouting Love You Love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback; 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPoetry\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"@honeyedwordspdx","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48324988600574,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3654\/9374\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-07_101625.png?v=1780855979","url":"https:\/\/sonnyshouse.com\/products\/the-dinner-party-a-book-about-love-by-cat-fitzpatrick","provider":"Sonny's House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}