{"product_id":"the-incentive-of-the-maggot-ron-slate-9780618543588","title":"The Incentive of the Maggot","description":"In his prize-winning collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate \"brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.\" In Slate's words, \"Is this the end of the world? \/ No just the end \/ of the language that describes it.\" Recently published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to \"make the known world seem wickedly strange -- a poetry that is utterly of the moment, our moment, because it sounds like nobody else.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Slate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0618543589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618543588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.50w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/2005 pg. 56","brand":"Ron Slate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128507068671,"sku":"9780618543588","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ab053c8-43fc-478b-bbfa-3d3ecf12d949.jpg?v=1687459005","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-incentive-of-the-maggot-ron-slate-9780618543588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}