{"product_id":"9780692925393","title":"Prophecy Mechanic","description":"In his debut poetry collection, \"Chad Sokolovsky writes poems that stay inside you long after you're finished reading them. In Prophecy Mechanic, he explores the industry of memory-making in work that juxtaposes love, music, and art with the casual tyranny of religion, capitalism, and family legacy. Here, human landscapes are revealed click by click as through a View-Master: an oppressive classroom decorated with a teacher's model military airplanes; the bleak rooms and shag carpets of childhood; a tableau of kids transfixed at the television, absorbing gender roles via Saturday-morning cartoons. Tension between the individual imagination and those structures which seek to constrain and distort is enacted frequently in visions of the post-war industrial; the emotional life of the poems is marked by dissociation and drift. Sokolovsky's book marks the debut of a steady voice of witness whose poems serve as thoughtful elegies for the hopes of children, lovers, believers, and for all of us living in the shadow of late capitalism.\" \u003cp\u003e- Stella Beratlis, author of Alkali Sink\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49791840616688,"sku":"9780692925393","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692925393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}