{"product_id":"hold-me-tight-9781597098298","title":"Hold Me Tight","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn five poetic sequences, Jason Schneiderman's \u003cem\u003eHold Me Tight\u003c\/em\u003e considers life in a new age of anxiety as technology and violence inform new forms of selfhood and apocalypse seems always around the corner. Starting with a long poem about his own struggle to find peace, the collection is searingly grounded in the personal, anchored to Schneiderman's own life. The collection moves to a sequence of parables about wolves, which obliquely consider intractable political conflicts and the emotional fallout of relationships that are structured around predators and prey. The next sequences focus on technology and art, looking at how technologies extend the possibilities of the human body, which alters what it means to be human. A long set of poems about Chris Burden explore the artist's movement from the personal, self-inflicted violence of his early work to the larger questions of political violence that inform his later work. In the final sequence, Schneiderman imagines a series of \"last things\"--in which finality gives meaning to the people and things in question. In the end, Schneiderman's project invokes a kind of old fashioned humanism, embracing the ruptures in our contemporary ways of living and thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchneiderman, Jason:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Schneiderman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four books of poems: \u003cem\u003eHold Me Tight \u003c\/em\u003e(Red Hen Press 2020), \u003cem\u003ePrimary Source \u003c\/em\u003e(Red Hen Press 2016), \u003cem\u003eStriking Surface \u003c\/em\u003e(Ashland Poetry Press 2010), and \u003cem\u003eSublimation Point \u003c\/em\u003e(Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology \u003cem\u003eQueer: A Reader for Writers\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press 2016). His poetry and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Poetry London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Grand Street\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.\u003c\/em\u003e He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50436898259218,"sku":"9781597098298","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1caaa47f-2c16-46c7-91c6-c4af083be7df.jpg?v=1729638961","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hold-me-tight-9781597098298","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}