{"product_id":"making-a-living-poems-9781571315656","title":"Making a Living: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These are poems--generative, alert, and complex--that make good on the promise of the book's smart and fitting title.\" --Natalie Shapero, author of \u003ci\u003ePopular Longing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant and lithe collection of poems making space for the resolve and hope of motherhood amid consumerist dreams and nightmares.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsumerism--its privations and raptures--seeps into all aspects of contemporary life. \"Who knows me \/ as the search bar does, which holds \/ sacred its grasp of me \/ as a creature of habit?\" probes Rosalie Moffett, reckoning with algorithms, with marketing and capital. But\u003ci\u003e Making a Living \u003c\/i\u003eisn't just about the trappings of materialism--it's also about the fraught trials of trying to bring forth life in a double-dealing America where all sources are suspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShrewdly balancing the likes of Scrooge McDuck and HGTV, ancient Roman haruspicy and the latest pregnancy technologies, this collection arcs ultimately toward reinhabiting the present, refusing to look away--on seeing as a method of prayer and a power against capitalism's threats to love, motherhood, reverence, and nature. Vigilant and profane, gentle and generous, full of desire and cunning, Moffett's poetry is a singular entry in our conversations around enduring modern life and daring to make new life in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosalie Moffett \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eNervous System\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Poetry Series Prize and was listed by the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas a New and Notable book, and June in Eden. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, POETRY Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Evansville, Indiana, where she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184811966738,"sku":"9781571315656","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a6857e5-504b-480e-a031-527b77077151.jpg?v=1744576881","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-a-living-poems-9781571315656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}