{"product_id":"the-blue-split-compartments-9780819580436","title":"The Blue Split Compartments","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn innovative suite of poems for the drone age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blue Split Compartments\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex and powerful sequence of lyric poems exploring the relationships between military drone operators and their victims. Drawing on chatroom logs, military policy manuals, pattern of life archives, and accounts by witnesses around the world, these poems document the consequences of the perpetual and 'everywhere war.' With its sophisticated interplay of diction, rhetoric, syntax, positioning, allusion, and sonic quality, this book offers a linguistically virtuosic and deeply humane x-ray of the discursive and militaristic systems that join us in mutual dissolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcerpt from \"Opened\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the box, frozen against hierarchy\u003cbr\u003eat a value of some $10m, simply a form of being; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esurgeon's box, patient's wound, \u003cbr\u003ean idea of enclosure that can fit any medium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe gaze is on the side of things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe angel of evil could not have done that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA child is in heaven. The box is empty, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esaying nothing but \"construction.\" It really is\u003cbr\u003elike swatting flies; we can do it forever\u003cbr\u003eeasily and you feel nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819580436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Andrea Brady","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40721183539381,"sku":"9780819580436","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1cb11d6b-039d-4018-9e87-479118e09740.jpg?v=1628605585","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-blue-split-compartments-9780819580436","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}