They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full

Bibbins, Mark

ISBN 10: 1556594585 / ISBN 13: 9781556594588

Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 2014

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<div><p><b>Honored as a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><p></p><p>"The book's a little crazy, packed with air quotes and brackets, jokes and condemnations, forms that explode across the page. Crazily enough, it's also packed with truth.&#8221;&#151;NPR</p><p>&#147;The voice of this third book from Bibbins is marked and numbed by the onslaught of American media and politics that saturate the Internet, television, radio, and smartphone: &#145;the way things are going, children/ will have to upgrade to more amusing.&#8217; Much like advertisements or news stories vying for viewer&#8217;s attention, the book intentionally overwhelms, eschewing sections; the author instead differentiates the poems by repetition, creating a sort of echo chamber, similar to the way viral information cycles through social media platforms.&#8221;&#151;<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review</p><p>"[A] hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization.&#8221;&#151;<i>American Poets</i></p><p>"Whip-smart and wickedly funny, <i>They Don't Kill You</i> is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date."&#151;<i>Boston Review</i></p><p>The poems in Mark Bibbins's breakthrough third book are formally innovative and socially alert. Roving across the weird human landscape of modern politics, media-exacerbated absurdity, and questionable social conventions, this collection counters dread with wit, chaos with clarity, and reminds us that suffering is "small//compared to what?"</p><p><b>Mark Bibbins</b> teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of <i>The Awl.</i> He lives in New York City.</p><br></p></div>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: <div>Mark Bibbins is the author of <i>The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence,</i> a digital-only chapbook; and <i>Sky Lounge,</i> which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded <i>LIT</i> magazine, and at Columbia University. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of <i>The Awl</i> and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. His poems have appeared in <i>Poetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry,</i> and <i>Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.</i><br></div>

Bibliografische Details

Titel: They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, ...
Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket