{"product_id":"shifting-baseline-syndrome-9780889778542","title":"Shifting Baseline Syndrome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature isn't dying\u003cbr\u003e it's simply revising\u003cbr\u003e its target audience\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eShifting Baseline Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e, Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip in a portapotty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of television? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout Kreuter's sophomore collection, the TV remote is never far. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShifting Baseline Syndrome \u003c\/i\u003eis both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As these clash ecstatically with loathing--and with the end looming--Kreuter demonstrates why we'll keep doing what we've always done: hoping, for once, that the series finale will be good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Kreuter is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou and Me, Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eArguments for Lawn Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). His writing has appeared in places such as \u003ci\u003eGrain Magazine, The Puritan, The Temz Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Rusty Toque\u003c\/i\u003e. Kreuter lives in Toronto and is a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University. \u003ci\u003eShifting Baseline Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e is his second book of poems.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387017564434,"sku":"9780889778542","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a32b341-55ff-4ecd-8bf3-f6303a41a401.jpg?v=1728866877","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shifting-baseline-syndrome-9780889778542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}