{"product_id":"stay-dead-paperback-2","title":"Stay Dead - 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\u003eNatalie Shapero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStay Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy, and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe politics of labor and performance collide with comedy and tragedy in Natalie Shapero's fourth poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eStay Dead\u003c\/em\u003e. Shapero's unflinching poems explore theories of acting, discourses of survival, privacy and publicity, power and punchlines, and the language of despair. This work explores how \"your death place \/ is the birthplace you choose.\" With appearances by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Chris Burden, Studs Terkel, Anthony Bourdain, Gene Kelly, and others, Shapero investigates themes of method acting, abstract expressionism, and the production and commodification of intense expression and raw interiority. She offers sly examinations of labor and housing markets. She interrogates the influence of artists' material conditions on the work they produce and the culture they shape. With a cutting, sardonic voice, Shapero asks what it means to be a working artist under capitalism; which individuals are permitted earnest extensions of the self; and \"whether being born is worth it.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Shapero\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003ePopular Longing\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon, 2021), \u003ci\u003eHard Child \u003c\/i\u003e(Copper Canyon, 2021), and \u003ci\u003eNo Object\u003c\/i\u003e (Saturnalia, 2013), as well as the pamphlet \u003ci\u003eToday Hamlet \u003c\/i\u003e(Out-Spoken, 2023). Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books, Granta, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, a finalist designation from the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and an Assets for Artists residency fellowship from The Studios at MassMOCA. A former civil-rights lawyer, she works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.82 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353902989561,"sku":"9781556597121","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/gcD5NwW_nP9781556597121_3aa0a317-f0d4-4a8d-8329-ea4a46fe856c.webp?v=1769828761","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/stay-dead-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}