{"product_id":"percussion-grenade-poems-plays-paperback-1","title":"Percussion Grenade: Poems \u0026 Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyelle McSweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyelle McSweeney\u003c\/b\u003e: Joyelle McSweeney is the author of five books: \u003ci\u003eThe Necropastoral\u003c\/i\u003e (Spork Press, 2011), an artist's book of essays and poems featuring collages by Andrew Shuta; the hybrid novels \u003ci\u003eFlet\u003c\/i\u003e (Fence, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eNylund the Sarcographer\u003c\/i\u003e (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007); and the poetry volumes \u003ci\u003eThe Commandrine and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Fence, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Bird, \u003c\/i\u003e which was chosen by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2001. She also translates the \u003ci\u003eAeneid.\u003c\/i\u003e McSweeney's prose, poetry, drama and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Poetry, American Letters and Commentary, Fairy Tale Review, Gulf Coast, How2, Jubilat, Conduit, Lamination Colony\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and are featured in such anthologies as \u003ci\u003eMy Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin 2010) and \u003ci\u003eLegitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century\u003c\/i\u003e (Sarabande 2006). McSweeney is a co-founder of Action Books and \u003ci\u003eAction, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e, a press and web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms, as well as a contributing editor of the collective culture blog montevidayo.com. McSweeney's essays on such topics as poetry, art, translation, genre, media, and pedagogy have appeared or are forthcoming in pamphlet form from Ugly Duckling Presse, in journals including \u003ci\u003eNew American Writing, Cross Cultural Poetics, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eboundary2, \u003c\/i\u003e in anthologies, such as \u003ci\u003ePoets on Teaching: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e from the University of Iowa Press, and in on-line blogs, websites and zines. Review essays regularly appear in \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi, American Book Review, The Boston Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of 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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334344327417,"sku":"9781934200520","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dTI5S2AHED9781934200520_61d33bdf-cd6d-4fcf-9f63-fcdce48de337.webp?v=1769648828","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/percussion-grenade-poems-plays-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}