Reaper - by Jill McDonough (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A targeted look at America's drone program and our culpability, questioning what, if anything, we've learned from our brutal past<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Reaper</i> knocked me flat with its utter breathlessness. . . . McDonough paints a stark picture of a soulless tomorrow ruled by the technologies of convenience--a tomorrow we just might stop if we could.--Patricia Smith</p><p>These dark, straightforward poems showcase the power of technology by painting a vivid picture of America's expanding drone program and the havoc we wreak--and then ignore--around the globe. McDonough offers the past, present, and future as non-linear timelines, and explores how the intersection between man and machine is starting to blur, and how we're losing qualities essential to being human.</p><p><b>From My Sister Wants to Buy My Dad a Drone For Father's Day: <br></b></p><p> What a pain<br> in the ass to have a sister like me, <br>who won't just fork over her share<br> of the dough. Who has to <i>feel</i> dumb<br> ways about things, distracted by names<br> like DarkStar, Scan Eagle, Shadow, <br>Wasp Block. Who doesn't want a toy<br> airplane with a camera? My dad is not going<br> to shoot suspected insurgents, hover<br> over his neighbors' homes for days.<br> Technology is fungible. Also<br> really cool. Drones don't kill people, <br> people et cetera. People drown<br>in water. But I still want to drink it.<br></p><p><b>Jill McDonough</b> is the winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes. She's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, and taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in <i>Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review</i>, and <i>Best American Poetry</i>. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, Jill McDonough is the author of <i>Habeas Corpus</i> (Salt, 2008), <i>Oh, James!</i> (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and <i>Where You Live</i> (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in <i>Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, </i> and <i>Best American Poetry.</i> She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.
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