{"product_id":"context-collapse-a-poem-containing-a-history-of-poetry-9781644214237","title":"Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2024 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProphet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, \u003ci\u003eContext Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the caf?s of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people. It is precisely to poets to whom we ought to turn to catch a glimpse, as Shelley once put it, of the \"gigantic shadows futurity casts on the present.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRYAN RUBY \u003c\/b\u003eis a critic, novelist, and translator from French. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Zero and the One: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (Twelve Books, 2017) and his criticism has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, The Nation, POETRY, The Believer, The Point\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of the 2019 Albert Einstein Fellowship from the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. He currently teaches creative writing at the Berlin Writers' Workshop.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878340825362,"sku":"9781644214237","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88944da8-b926-453f-9530-197d504a45ec.jpg?v=1738293829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/context-collapse-a-poem-containing-a-history-of-poetry-9781644214237","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}