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They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full - (Lannan Literary Selections) by Mark Bibbins (Paperback)

They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full - (Lannan Literary Selections) by  Mark Bibbins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Bibbins's poems contain an exhilarating range of references, from Dr. Dre and Pat Robertson to Henry Fonda and Buzz Aldrin.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Honored as a Best Poetry Book of the Year by <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><p></p><p>The 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</p><p>"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."--<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review</p><p>[A] hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization."--<i>American Poets</i></p><p>Whip-smart and wickedly funny, <i>They Don't Kill You</i> is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date.--<i>Boston Review</i></p><p>The 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?</p><p><b>Mark Bibbins</b> teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of <i>The Awl.</i> He lives in New York City.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mark Bibbins is the author of <i>The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, </i> a digital-only chapbook; and <i>Sky Lounge, </i> which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded <i>LIT</i> magazine, and at Columbia University. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of <i>The Awl</i> and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. His poems have appeared in <i>Poetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, </i> and <i>Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.</i><br>

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