{"product_id":"i-confess-9781552455111","title":"I Confess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow is a lyric poem like a polygraph machine? A personal, poetic examination of the technology of truth-telling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Schmaltz's \u003ci\u003eI Confess\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the complexities of truth-telling in poetry, and the history of technologies designed to produce truth from willing and unwilling subjects, considering what it means to use a device - poetry or polygraph - to draw out one's most profound feelings and emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the intersection of power, technology, and language, \u003ci\u003eI Confess\u003c\/i\u003e meditates on lie detection and its history, including trials by ordeal and pseudoscientific technologies. The poet then turns to his own personal experiences working with a lie detector and polygraph analyst. Taking himself as the central subject of the book, Schmaltz puts his subjectivity and positionality under scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answers to questions such as \u003ci\u003eWhat does family mean to you?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCan you describe a time when you felt your best? \u003c\/i\u003einspire a range of forms from conventional lyrical verse to list poems to palindromes to visual poems. With an afterword by Orchid Tierney, \u003ci\u003e I Confess\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal, poetic document of truth's performance under duress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Schmaltz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBorderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press) and \u003ci\u003eSurfaces\u003c\/i\u003e (Invisible Publishing), editor of \u003ci\u003eAnother Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks), and co-editor of\u003ci\u003e I Want to Tell You Love\u003c\/i\u003e by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. His creative work has been published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764118651154,"sku":"9781552455111","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ded1812b-3df8-4b83-b0da-3ca55fc9791d.jpg?v=1764756698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-confess-9781552455111","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}