{"product_id":"9781934200742","title":"Colony Collapse Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Into the deeper shoals of syntax strolls Philip Jenks, sans machete, instead with a watering can filled to the brim with acto-juice precisely calculated to make those nouns and verbs and articles shoot to record heights and tangles.\"—Kevin Killian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Jenks's poems land like bolts of plasma: superheated, suppurated, the \"inverted afterthought\" of destiny that awaits the speaker of one poem, or absurdities that make a devastating sense, as when Jenks asks about \"temperature of God\" while invoking the fires of Auschwitz, or when he imagines meth-laced syringes puncturing a user's skin from the inside out. These poems draw blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFOX HOLE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e—where the heart sits.\u003cbr\u003e\"Body song\"\u003cbr\u003eOf a prayer, you.\u003cbr\u003eEnsemble\u003cbr\u003eAblated\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThey pulled the skin and fur clean off,\u003cbr\u003eBut the fox, panting, blinked with\u003cbr\u003eWhat was left of eyes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeeled.\u003cbr\u003e\"Strung out\"\u003cbr\u003eWill I aid and abet\u003cbr\u003eWith inaction?\u003cbr\u003eThere is no difference\u003cbr\u003eBetween killing and allowing to die.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilip Jenks\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His previous volumes are \u003ci\u003eOn the Cave You Live In\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eMy First Painting will be \"The Accuser\" \u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Address\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He has toured and recorded with Neil Michael Hagerty as a member of The Howling Hex. His academic specializations are in gender studies, animal rights, and political philosophy. He likes good music and pinball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fence Magazine, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039620940016,"sku":"9781934200742","price":14.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934200742_p0.jpg?v=1763641689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934200742","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}