{"product_id":"thoughts-and-prayers-9781682192160","title":"Thoughts and Prayers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"You walk into \u003ci\u003eThoughts and Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e like it's a familiar pop cultural fun house-then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you're actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and bitter fun.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Mary Gaitskill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThoughts and Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life, from the 1970s to the 1990s Democrats, through the collapse of the news industry, to the burlesque Trump era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlissa Quart\u003c\/strong\u003e is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eMonetized\u003c\/em\u003e and four non-fiction books: \u003cem\u003eSqueezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America, Republic of Outsiders, Hothouse Kids, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBranded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.\u003c\/em\u003e Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta, the London Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, among many other publications. She writes \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian's\u003c\/em\u003e \"Outclassed\" column and contributes to a range of publications including \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389956264210,"sku":"9781682192160","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7c9f900-978d-4a8e-a203-c1b907fb0ac1.jpg?v=1728934665","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thoughts-and-prayers-9781682192160","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}