{"product_id":"they-dont-kill-you-because-theyre-hungry-they-kill-you-because-theyre-full-paperback","title":"They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Bibbins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonored as a Best Poetry Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's a little crazy, packed with air quotes and brackets, jokes and condemnations, forms that explode across the page. Crazily enough, it's also packed with truth.\"--NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The voice of this third book from Bibbins is marked and numbed by the onslaught of American media and politics that saturate the Internet, television, radio, and smartphone: 'the way things are going, children\/ will have to upgrade to more amusing.' Much like advertisements or news stories vying for viewer's attention, the book intentionally overwhelms, eschewing sections; the author instead differentiates the poems by repetition, creating a sort of echo chamber, similar to the way viral information cycles through social media platforms.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003estarred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A] hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhip-smart and wickedly funny, \u003ci\u003eThey Don't Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date.--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Mark Bibbins's breakthrough third book are formally innovative and socially alert. Roving across the weird human landscape of modern politics, media-exacerbated absurdity, and questionable social conventions, this collection counters dread with wit, chaos with clarity, and reminds us that suffering is small\/\/compared to what?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Bibbins\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of \u003ci\u003eThe Awl.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Bibbins is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, \u003c\/i\u003e a digital-only chapbook; and \u003ci\u003eSky Lounge, \u003c\/i\u003e which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded \u003ci\u003eLIT\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and at Columbia University. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of \u003ci\u003eThe Awl\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLegitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760543793440,"sku":"9781556594588","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6cec2067d550487f25acbf07bf97c5cc.webp?v=1780182876","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/they-dont-kill-you-because-theyre-hungry-they-kill-you-because-theyre-full-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}