{"product_id":"verses-that-hurt-jordan-trachtenberg-9780312151911","title":"Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are are holding right now in your hands is a book. Not a telephone reciever, which is how most of the poems in this collection were first transmitted...There are plenty of examples of this spreading of one art form or another through popular mediums. There are all those wonderful Russian Constructivist posters, Dr. Alphabet's public poetry gatherings on football fields, Dada caberet antics, and various forms of street theatr...Essentially what all of these movements were trying to do was expand the playing field called art. By making the field bigger they gave us all more room to frolic. They pushed art right out of the dusty museums and smack dab into your lives... Poetry \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003e be everywhere, and slowly but surely it's infiltrating our lives. We are gla dto be the instruments of this infiltration. --from the Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing\u003cbr\u003ePenny Arcade, Tish Benson, Nicole Blackman, David Cameron, Xavier Cavazos, Todd Colby, Matthew Courtney, M. Doughty, Kathy Ebel, Annie Elliot, Janice Erlbaum, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, John S. Hall, Bob Holman, Christian X. Hunter, Shannon Ketch, Bobby Miller, Wanda Phipps, Lee Ranaldo, Shut-Up Shelly, Hal Sirowitz, Sparrow, Spiro, Edwin Torres, Emily XYZ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith unabashed fervor the Poemfone poets are redefining poetry as we know it. Archaic literary rules that have never been bent have suddenly been broken., and \u003ci\u003eVersus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThat Hurt\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles this poetic phenomenon. This is a revolutionary gathering of disparate and brash talent that is not to be missed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jordan Trachtenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312151918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312151911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Jordan Trachtenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913649848575,"sku":"9780312151911","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_581da4c3-e8e8-4113-b64f-5fc24c8bfef6.jpg?v=1680621552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/verses-that-hurt-jordan-trachtenberg-9780312151911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}