{"product_id":"the-work-shy-blunt-research-group-9780819578617","title":"The Work-Shy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Work-Shy painstakingly reconstructs a chorus of voices rescued from hermetic \"colonies\" and fragile communes, from worlds that work in ways that defy work as we know it. Its poetic assemblages offer direct testimony from the first youth prison in California and from asylums for the chronically insane (preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Germany and the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York City). Painful facts emerge about \"sterilization mills\" in California, where thousands of individuals became subject to compulsory procedures (policies that shaped eugenics practice in the Third Reich). In addition, the poems \"translate\" asylum texts--the writing of the insane--into a wider field of social conflict and utopian fragments of not-yet-being.\u003cbr\u003eActivating what Susan Howe calls \"the telepathy of the archive\" (and Peter Gizzi dubs \"archeophonics\" in the title of his latest collection), the poems of The Work-Shy become part of a \"book of listening,\" occupying identities rooted in the demimonde and in places of confinement. Voices echo to form a ragged chain of soliloquies, kenning and keening, riddles and rants. Published under the collective, anonymous signature of the BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP, the book operates at the crossroads of lyric and documentary poetries, of singularity and collectivism. An online readers companion will be available at bluntresearchgroup.site.wesleyan.edu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blunt Research Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819578614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819578617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Blunt Research Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926500212991,"sku":"9780819578617","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c78e55d9-a299-4e9b-ac4f-602881a76beb.jpg?v=1681083421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-work-shy-blunt-research-group-9780819578617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}