{"product_id":"bright-machine-canisia-lubrin-9780771019951","title":"Bright Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes the highly anticipated new collection, \u003ci\u003eBright Machine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis profoundly engaged, boldly formed long suite poem probes the legacy of human intelligence put in service of ruin. The rhythm of Morse Code drives the poem's haunting music as the poet records the effects of warcraft on places and times of perilous and bright possibility for human cohabitation. The result is a book of chimeric monologues in an invented form Lubrin calls the tesseract--a poem of 16 lines of fragmented music, shaped by the logic of the mathematical cube--four stanzas growing from the quatrain, each increased by one line until the final one-line stanza. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poet here addresses the myth of the developed world's heirs, casualties, and its wing of weapons that guarantee(d) the successes of empires. \u003ci\u003eBright Machine\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the saga of civilization as the story of arms history and its emissaries' expansive appetites for recasting conquest and mass killing, in, all at once, heartening, urgent poetry for a turbulent world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Canisia Lubrin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0771019955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780771019951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Canisia Lubrin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443204534527,"sku":"9780771019951","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d32564ca-dc59-489c-ae12-2a2a20fbe5a2.jpg?v=1777202552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bright-machine-canisia-lubrin-9780771019951","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}