{"product_id":"because-you-previously-liked-or-played-paperback","title":"Because You Previously Liked or Played - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Redmond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBecause You Previously Liked or Played\u003c\/i\u003e explore a world that is increasingly mediated through technology; the personal and political struggle for meaning, connection, and reality run like a fever dream through the schizophrenic circuits of television, cyberspace, and virtual existence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBecause You Previously Liked or Played\u003c\/i\u003e reveal an extremely online persona who finds life IRL challenging. In the reality of these poems, the reader confronts the difficulties and nuances of a world rendered more accessible, more instantaneous, but also more isolating, uncertain, even terrifying thanks to the internet. The speaker faces a social sphere that is bigger, faster, more politically unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLyricism and personal expression are interlaced with the language and syntax of chat rooms, gamers, e-commerce, in a way that troubles the dividing lines between the human and the inhuman, the authentic and the artificial, the real and the hyperreal. The self morphs into a sequence of failed firewalls and emotions. And yet, the speaker continues questing for answers, for meaning, for connection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese poems provide an unflinching look at a wired existence, but they never lose their capacity for wonder, feeling, surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Redmond is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Get Back to Work, and the chapbook, Shirts or Skins. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pleiades, Redivider, PANK, and Diagram, among others. Born and raised in Michigan, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD in creative writing, poetry from the University of North Texas. From there he lived and taught in Lahore, Pakistan, before moving back to the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.1 x 7.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765113880864,"sku":"9781646052776","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bf719d5e08d77796420324c54e39e2dc.webp?v=1780262297","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/because-you-previously-liked-or-played-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}