{"product_id":"9781934200520","title":"Percussion Grenade: Poems \u0026 Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eMusic and drama as weapons of productive destruction. This collection by prize-winning, massively influential literary star Joyelle McSweeney explodes the twinned and dangerous notions that images are pretty, and that they land predictably. Power struggles in all contexts and the driving ever-presence of a lexicon of puissance make this a bracing read, not for the faint of heart or mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Guadaloop\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eJust inside the cutters’ pavilion\u003cbr\u003eJust at the peak of the oxygen tent\u003cbr\u003eJust on the inner lid of the hairline coma\u003cbr\u003eJust on the inner thighs of the medical canal\u003cbr\u003eJust up under the gesso of lubrication\u003cbr\u003eJust up to the hairline of the hairline crack\u003cbr\u003eJust there where the adolescent girl eyes the camera\u003cbr\u003eJust under the burden of her fishscale hair\u003cbr\u003eJust where one sister shoulders the other\u003cbr\u003eJust why should one sister have to shoulder the other\u003cbr\u003eJust while out of the frame the globe unshouldered rolls around like a boulder in the mouth\u003cbr\u003eJust the whole world like a wadded-up burden in the mouth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoyelle McSweeney \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Red Bird\u003c\/i\u003e , chosen by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. McSweeney is a co-founder of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms, and a contributing editor of the culture blog montevidayo.com. She holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039620841712,"sku":"9781934200520","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200520_p0.jpg?v=1763641980","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200520","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}