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[A] provocative reinterpretation of poetry''s function...Here is devastating meta-poetry for the board game–playing, smartphone-scrolling masses, both accessible and enlightened.—Publisher''s Weekly

Starkweather is creating a living poetry. C.D. Wright, author of One With Others, winner 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

I am of my times and you screengrab out of ancient nowhere, is the title of a poem from Starkweather''s second collection, PAIN: The Board Game. The title perfectly captures both his contemporariness and his empathetic treatment of our most primal conditions: dis- / appointment / & misery / & helplessness / & suffering / & pain / & fear.

As he deploys the #trending and vintage lexicons of technology and pop culture with the depth and ease of a true lyricist, Starkweather pushes his poems into the territory of universal affect and risky humanity, to the root of our

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    A Paperback / softback by Sampson Starkweather, Jon-Michael Frank

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      Publisher: Third Man Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/11/2015
      ISBN13: 9780991336128, 978-0991336128
      ISBN10: 0991336127

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      [A] provocative reinterpretation of poetry''s function...Here is devastating meta-poetry for the board game–playing, smartphone-scrolling masses, both accessible and enlightened.—Publisher''s Weekly

      Starkweather is creating a living poetry. C.D. Wright, author of One With Others, winner 2011 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

      I am of my times and you screengrab out of ancient nowhere, is the title of a poem from Starkweather''s second collection, PAIN: The Board Game. The title perfectly captures both his contemporariness and his empathetic treatment of our most primal conditions: dis- / appointment / & misery / & helplessness / & suffering / & pain / & fear.

      As he deploys the #trending and vintage lexicons of technology and pop culture with the depth and ease of a true lyricist, Starkweather pushes his poems into the territory of universal affect and risky humanity, to the root of our

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