{"product_id":"9781890311209","title":"Some Notes on My Programming","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING finds Anselm Berrigan, Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, once more in funny, irritable, tip-top form. Surveying the Bush-era cultural landscape and not liking what it sees, the poetry herein confronts that reality in terms disgusted (\"The group is\/an asshole.\/Self-censorship\/is the American avant-garde\") and terrifying (\"Dreamt I was chopping off fingers\/of mine with audience. Not cool\"), encompassing odd disclosure (\"I don't want my brother to get a job ever\") and biting satire (\"Osama passes\/George the bong\/bitching about 21st century\/hydroponic weed\"). And yet, even if we are all just \"Trained Meat,\" as the title of one poem suggests, the work here never gives in to despair; we may be \"under attack\/in mourning\/all at once\" but we also \"better make\/\/room for each\/grief letting\/me see what\/lines and\/lies\/not to take\/and how\/moment\/by moment\/to be.\" A fantastic and necessary book.","brand":"Edge Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054715879664,"sku":"9781890311209","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781890311209","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}