{"product_id":"reaper-jill-mcdonough-9781938584268","title":"Reaper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReaper\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"My Sister Wants to Buy My Dad a Drone For Father's Day\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What a pain\u003cbr\u003e in the ass to have a sister like me, \u003cbr\u003ewho won't just fork over her share\u003cbr\u003e of the dough. Who has to \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e dumb\u003cbr\u003e ways about things, distracted by names\u003cbr\u003e like DarkStar, Scan Eagle, Shadow, \u003cbr\u003eWasp Block. Who doesn't want a toy\u003cbr\u003e airplane with a camera? My dad is not going\u003cbr\u003e to shoot suspected insurgents, hover\u003cbr\u003e over his neighbors' homes for days.\u003cbr\u003e Technology is fungible. Also\u003cbr\u003e really cool. Drones don't kill people, \u003cbr\u003e people et cetera. People drown\u003cbr\u003ein water. But I still want to drink it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill McDonough\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill McDonough\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938584260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Jill McDonough","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372467376383,"sku":"9781938584268","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb89574c-f771-45bc-8ddb-b69781486f47.jpg?v=1732726025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reaper-jill-mcdonough-9781938584268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}