{"product_id":"9781933149158","title":"The Unreasonable Slug","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Not long ago one of Milwaukee poetry’s young turks, Cook is now simply one of the city’s major poets.”— \u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for people who “don’t like poetry,” Matt Cook’s distinctive writing is Midwestern yet worldly, rooted yet bohemian. His close observations result in poems that resemble a series of punk fortune cookies, a kind of psychedelic horse sense—discovering musicality and humor in cultural information, in family, in writing itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“The Modernist Bowling Alley” \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe forgotten soul who first separated egg whites. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe homeless man wearing the Superman T-shirt.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheir intentions were clearly understood,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eExcept when they were unintentional and misunderstood. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Madagascar moth is no longer destroying the prized sweaters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWith anywhere near his previous curve of frequency.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShoddy construction is now the more critical threat.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe modernist bowling alley will have the futuristic waiting area\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhere you can go and wait patiently for the future.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou will see a clock on the wall that doesn’t really look like a clock.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou will distinctly remember having forgotten that before. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatt Cook\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Small of My Backyard\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEavesdrop Soup.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has been featured on NPR’s \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Writer’s Almanac.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manic D Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039611076848,"sku":"9781933149158","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933149158_p0.jpg?v=1763640270","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933149158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}