{"product_id":"on-the-care-and-feeding-of-robots-9781943691036","title":"On the Care and Feeding of Robots","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are the poems of a Christian pilgrim, a mercurial, twenty-first century believer-priest who characterizes himself, from the outset, as a highly problematic nomad. Poem after poem suggests that, in our postmodern era, one's identity, \u003cem\u003e if \u003c\/em\u003eungrounded in the eternal Word, may yield at best either a vanishing semblance of macroscopic reality or its probabilistic trace. That, of course, is the predicament confronted by any compulsive wanderer--a crisis as perceptual in its implications as it is spiritual. Yet the lyrics in\u003cem\u003e On the Care and Feeding of Robots\u003c\/em\u003e never seek to celebrate a static reality. In other words, here, it is far more than the romantic desire for permanence that agitates the speaker; rather, it is fear of the imminent loss of his spacewalker's dream life that unsettles him. To live as a shuttle astronaut in a universe without access to its numinous meanings is to exist as no more than a ghostly qwiff--a wave ripple in a virtual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrsini, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel Orsini is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, where he earned three degrees in English literature (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.). Daniel has taught for many years at Rhode Island College as a Associate Professor of English. He is the author of Galactic Pilgrim and A User's Guide to Spacetime.","brand":"Quaternity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453745496338,"sku":"9781943691036","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4dae63ed-c8ef-42d9-9b44-d94475141578.jpg?v=1751979623","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-robots-9781943691036","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}