{"product_id":"prophecy-mechanic-chad-sokolovsky-9780692925393","title":"Prophecy Mechanic","description":"In his debut poetry collection, \"Chad Sokolovsky writes poems that stay inside you long after you're finished reading them. In Prophecy Mechanic, he explores the industry of memory-making in work that juxtaposes love, music, and art with the casual tyranny of religion, capitalism, and family legacy. Here, human landscapes are revealed click by click as through a View-Master: an oppressive classroom decorated with a teacher's model military airplanes; the bleak rooms and shag carpets of childhood; a tableau of kids transfixed at the television, absorbing gender roles via Saturday-morning cartoons. Tension between the individual imagination and those structures which seek to constrain and distort is enacted frequently in visions of the post-war industrial; the emotional life of the poems is marked by dissociation and drift. Sokolovsky's book marks the debut of a steady voice of witness whose poems serve as thoughtful elegies for the hopes of children, lovers, believers, and for all of us living in the shadow of late capitalism.\" - Stella Beratlis, author of Alkali Sink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Sokolovsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692925392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692925393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2018 pg. 161","brand":"Chad Sokolovsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180136292607,"sku":"9780692925393","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a07b4a10-2b49-48bb-a234-747a400ebbfa.jpg?v=1712897570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prophecy-mechanic-chad-sokolovsky-9780692925393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}