{"product_id":"simulacra-volume-111-9780300223965","title":"Simulacra: Volume 111","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book \"rollicking, destabilizing, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant.\" This is poetry that breaks new literary ground, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAirea D. Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Matthews's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2015\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFour Way Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Detroit. \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThen the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613924921618,"sku":"9780300223965","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba6bcfb7-bfc9-4832-846c-9dba084422e4.jpg?v=1732421855","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/simulacra-volume-111-9780300223965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}