{"product_id":"the-century-poems-paperback","title":"The Century: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eÉireann Lorsung\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003eA Literary Hub \"Most Anticipated Book of 2020\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, \u003cem\u003eThe Century \u003c\/em\u003echarts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of witness poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Century\u003c\/em\u003e tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of \"bodies in the fields becoming the fields,\" it's the simplicity that's most haunting. After a fire, \"some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very \/ simple melting...\" But these poems don't just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Century \u003c\/em\u003eis evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eÉireann Lorsung\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eHer book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMusic for Landing Planes By\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a New and Noteworthy collection by \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2016. Since completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota, Lorsung has studied printmaking and drawing at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and taught high school in rural France. While living in Belgium, she ran a micropress called MIEL Books and a residency space called Dickinson House for writers and artists. From 2017-2020 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Nonfiction at the University of Maine, Farmington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769534742816,"sku":"9781571314833","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/80bb5d96e3e8f0ad7d793ef27424fcae.webp?v=1780350371","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-century-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}