{"product_id":"they-dont-kill-you-because-theyre-hungry-they-kill-you-because-theyre-full-9781556594588","title":"They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonored as a Best Poetry Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"--NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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: 'the way things are going, children\/ will have to upgrade to more amusing.' Much like advertisements or news stories vying for viewer'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.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A] hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhip-smart and wickedly funny, \u003ci\u003eThey Don't Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date.--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Bibbins\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of \u003ci\u003eThe Awl.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2014 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mark Bibbins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251425804469,"sku":"9781556594588","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be0e60dc-d9ad-484c-958d-f05ea5d82692.jpg?v=1699372619","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/they-dont-kill-you-because-theyre-hungry-they-kill-you-because-theyre-full-9781556594588","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}