{"product_id":"this-is-not-a-skyscraper-paperback","title":"This Is Not a Skyscraper - 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\u003eDean Kostos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Not a Skyscraper\u003c\/i\u003e examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte's painting, \"This is not a pipe,\" these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs of outsiders live on the city's margins, silenced. Among the grotesqueries of corruption, an African immigrant is killed by police in a case of mistaken identity. His disembodied voice introduces the book. Many of these poems attempt to speak for the \"others\" existing on the peripheral, whose perspectives have been abandoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean Kostos's collections include \u003ci\u003eRivering\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Supper of the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sentence That Ends with a Comma \u003c\/i\u003e(taught at Duke University), and \u003ci\u003eCelestial Rust\u003c\/i\u003e. He edited \u003ci\u003eMama's Boy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePomegranate Seeds. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in leading journals: \u003ci\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Chelsea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Cimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Cincinnati Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and on \u003ci\u003eOxygen.com\u003c\/i\u003e. Having taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School, and The City University of New York, he also wrote a libretto for Voices of Ascension, and his poem, \"Subway Silk,\" was translated into a short film by Jill Clark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.8 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351129342201,"sku":"9781597094160","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cGF4NEVxMXRuaVRPTng0T05wdkRsZz09.webp?v=1769795293","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/this-is-not-a-skyscraper-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}