{"product_id":"the-death-metal-pastorals-ryan-patrick-smith-9781625578075","title":"The Death Metal Pastorals","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Death Metal Pastorals\u003c\/i\u003e turns over the rolling green hills of the idyllic American landscape, excavates their violences, and attenuates the powers that live atop them. In Ryan Patrick Smith's pastoral, \" nothing works here but blood \u0026amp; radio\" and from page one, we know we're entering a landscape at once more ominous and more vigilant than anything conjured by Spencer, Drayton, or Marlowe. \u003cbr\u003e Smith's poems upend the topography of the pastoral setting, peering through a \" burning crop of disease\" to ask, \" Where am I in the field that I give my will over to you?\" Through a range of personas, from death metal swains to \u003ci\u003eThe Terminator\u003c\/i\u003e' s Sarah Connor to Mister Rogers to a smartphone camera at a Black Lives Matter protest, Smith casts a piercing eye to the destructive structures of consumption, gendered violence, and white supremacy. As we enter this highly charged pastoral terrain, far from the bucolic or picturesque, we're asked to inhabit these structures and then to work to live beyond them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Patrick Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625578075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625578075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.20d","brand":"Ryan Patrick Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485688148223,"sku":"9781625578075","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef7f0a86-b43e-4771-84e7-f887d84dd8db.jpg?v=1778050906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-death-metal-pastorals-ryan-patrick-smith-9781625578075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}