What if poetry and prayer are the same intimate and inconclusive hopeful and useless a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing imperfect worldGood Want entertains the notion that perhaps virtue is a myth thats outgrown its uses.amp160Exploring the value and shame ascribed to our desires both silly and serious artistic superficial spiritual relational amp8211 these poems grapple with deeply rooted questions How can there be a relationship between goodness and godliness if god is a character with shifting allegiances and priorities Is clarity worth the pain of redefining your experience of the world Is privacy the same as secrecy the same as deceit Each caveat becomes a prayer ritual invocation dream or confession requiring a blind faith that feels increasingly more impossible to sustain.amp160Good Want looks inward at once both sincere and tongueincheek to confront the hum of class and intergenerational trauma. Playing with and deconstructing received notions of amp8216goodamp8217 amp8216badamp8217 and amp8216godamp8217 these poems open up a series of further possibilities empathy for difficult people acceptance of our difficult selves and joy in every difficult thing.amp34These are lush provocative poems that luxuriate in unexpected detail while examining how economic precarity shapes both shame and desire. Firmly rooted in the working class Martinello explores the hunger we inherit from our ancestors what it means to indulge from a position of bottomless want and to Waste not your wanting. With impressive range a sense of humor and entrancing musicalityamp160Good Wantamp160is a celebration of the gluttony of girlhood the paradoxes of faith and everyday pleasures of a small specific life. amp8211amp160Cassidy McFadzean author ofamp160Crying Dressamp34Good Wantamp160is a baroque painting of Dutch aristocracy but all the subjectsamp8217 garments are secretly from Walmart. I mean this in the best way. Each poem cracks me open and out shines a neverbeforeseen