{"product_id":"9780991336128","title":"PAIN: The Board Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] provocative reinterpretation of poetry's function...Here is devastating meta-poetry for the board game–playing, smartphone-scrolling masses, both accessible and enlightened.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Starkweather is creating a living poetry.” —C.D. Wright, author of \u003ci\u003eOne With Others\u003c\/i\u003e, winner 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am of my times and you screengrab out of ancient nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e, is the title of a poem from Starkweather's second collection, \u003ci\u003ePAIN: The Board Game\u003c\/i\u003e. The title perfectly captures both his contemporariness and his empathetic treatment of our most primal conditions: \"dis- \/ appointment \/ \u0026amp; misery \/ \u0026amp; helplessness \/ \u0026amp; suffering \/ \u0026amp; pain \/ \u0026amp; fear.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he deploys the #trending and vintage lexicons of technology and pop culture with the depth and ease of a true lyricist, Starkweather pushes his poems into the territory of universal affect and risky humanity, to the root of our desire to connect. This is the contemporary poem that, just after it has \"Shazamed \/ your orgasm\" resurrects \"the rough magic \/ of bodies \/ illuminating \/ the lack \/ of any \/ limitation \/ when one.\" Starkweather's unyielding, funny, luminous poetry is a brand new classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePAIN:The Board Game\u003c\/i\u003e is the first analog and online interactive book of poetry with 160 pages of poems that are as visual as they are readable and includes 15 color illustrations by artist Jon-Michael Frank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 shots to the chest at the arcade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSadness is my favorite video game\u003cbr\u003eI am its hero\u003cbr\u003ethe little man with facial hair\u003cbr\u003escampering through pixilated cities\u003cbr\u003elooking for clues\u003cbr\u003eand accumulating shit\u003cbr\u003ewithout knowing why\u003cbr\u003etrying not to be crushed\u003cbr\u003eor free fall into the not-world’s dark\u003cbr\u003eas 8-bit clouds scroll across the pre-\u003cbr\u003eprogrammed sky\u003cbr\u003eit’s exhausting but I take it\u003cbr\u003enext level\u003cbr\u003eI am happy here\u003cbr\u003eit feels real\u003cbr\u003eand I can always die\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Third Man Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036022259952,"sku":"9780991336128","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780991336128_p0.jpg?v=1763898749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780991336128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}