{"product_id":"viability-9780143128281","title":"Viability","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo Bang\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Vap's sixth work of poetry, \u003ci\u003eViability\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in an effort to understand and to ask questions about the bodies (and minds, maybe even souls) that are owned by capitalism. These threads of language include definitions from an online financial dictionary, samples from an essay on the economics of slavery, quotations from an article about slavery in today's Thai fishing industry, lyric bits and pieces about pregnancy and infants of all kinds, and a wealth of quotations falsely attributed to John of the Cross. The viability that Vap is asking about is primarily economic and biological (but not only). The questions of viability become entwined with the need, across the book, to \"increase\"--in both a capitalist and a gestational sense. John of the Cross tries, at first with composure, to comment on or to mediate between all the different strands of the collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Vap\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eDummy Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Forest Gander. Her second collection, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Spikenard\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2007. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She lives in Venice, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764041154834,"sku":"9780143128281","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/viability-9780143128281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}