{"product_id":"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\u003e\"The 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\u003e\"Whip-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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057216209136,"sku":"9781556594588","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594588_p0.jpg?v=1763756609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594588","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}