{"product_id":"9780996626200","title":"My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn outstandingcollection of poetry about inventions and inventors, real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer, author of\u003cem\u003eThe Scabbard of Her Throat\u003c\/em\u003eand a chapbook,\u003cem\u003eWhat Remains.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I was awed by the seemingly endless number of ways that poets approached the subject. Naturally, there are poems about real inventions—from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs—as well as poems that conjure fantastical inventions—such as a contraption for kissing and a happy marriage machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile some of the poems in this anthology provide searing commentary on the dreadfulness of some of the creations birthed by inventors, other poems offer us a view into the stories behind inventions, as well as the lives of real and imagined inventors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether invoking humor, irony, historic research, or imagination, the poems in this anthology converse not only with each other, but also with their readers and the world at large, in service to the continued human drive to create solutions—even to problems we didn’t know we had.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Bernadette Geyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems by Alex Dreppec, Brett Foster, Clare Louise Harmon, Daniel Hales, David Mook, Donald Illich, Dorene O'Brien, F. J. Bergmann, FJP Langheim, Gwen Hart, H.M. Jones, Holly Karapetkova, J.G. McClure, Janet McNally, Jean Bonin, Jerry Bradley, Jesseca Cornelson, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Angela Edwins, Joel Allegretti, Julie E. Bloemeke, Karen Bovenmyer, Karen Skolfield, Kathryn Rickel, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Cherry, Kim Roberts, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laura Shovan, Magus Magnus, Malka Older, Marcela Sulak, Marjorie Maddox, Mia Leonin, Nolan Liebert, Norbert Gora, Rie Sheridan Rose, Rikki Santer, Robert Kenny, Sarah Key, Scott Beal, Shelley Puhak, Steven Wingate, Susan Bucci Mockler, Tanis MacDonald, Tanya Bryan, Tricia Asklar, W. Luther Jett, William Minor, and William Winfield Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019494703344,"sku":"9780996626200","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996626200_p0.jpg?v=1763900881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996626200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}