{"product_id":"my-cruel-invention-a-contemporary-poetry-anthology-9780996626200","title":"My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn outstanding collection of poetry about inventions and inventors, real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Scabbard of Her Throat \u003c\/em\u003eand a chapbook, \u003cem\u003eWhat Remains.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I was awed by the seemingly endless number of ways that poets approached the subject. Naturally, there are poems about real inventions--from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs--as well as poems that conjure fantastical inventions--such as a contraption for kissing and a happy marriage machine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile some of the poems in this anthology provide searing commentary on the dreadfulness of some of the creations birthed by inventors, other poems offer us a view into the stories behind inventions, as well as the lives of real and imagined inventors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether invoking humor, irony, historic research, or imagination, the poems in this anthology converse not only with each other, but also with their readers and the world at large, in service to the continued human drive to create solutions--even to problems we didn't know we had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Bernadette Geyer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoems by Alex Dreppec, Brett Foster, Clare Louise Harmon, Daniel Hales, David Mook, Donald Illich, Dorene O'Brien, F. J. Bergmann, FJP Langheim, Gwen Hart, H.M. Jones, Holly Karapetkova, J.G. McClure, Janet McNally, Jean Bonin, Jerry Bradley, Jesseca Cornelson, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Angela Edwins, Joel Allegretti, Julie E. Bloemeke, Karen Bovenmyer, Karen Skolfield, Kathryn Rickel, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Cherry, Kim Roberts, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laura Shovan, Magus Magnus, Malka Older, Marcela Sulak, Marjorie Maddox, Mia Leonin, Nolan Liebert, Norbert Gora, Rie Sheridan Rose, Rikki Santer, Robert Kenny, Sarah Key, Scott Beal, Shelley Puhak, Steven Wingate, Susan Bucci Mockler, Tanis MacDonald, Tanya Bryan, Tricia Asklar, W. Luther Jett, William Minor, and William Winfield Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernadette Geyer, Kelly Cherry, Joel Allegretti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Meerkat Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996626200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKELLY CHERRY\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twenty-four books, nine chapbooks, and two translations of classical drama. A tenth chapbook is forthcoming any day now. Former Poet Laureate of Virginia. Member, Poets Corner, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC. NEA, USIA, Rockefeller, Bradley Lifetime Award, Weinstein Award, others. Publication in prize fiction anthologies. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison. Eminent Scholar, UAH, 2001-2005. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOEL ALLEGRETTI\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five collections of poetry. His second, \u003ci\u003eFather Silicon\u003c\/i\u003e (The Poet's Press, 2006), was selected by the Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRabbit Ears: TV Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (NYQ Books, 2015), the first anthology of poetry about the mass medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARJORIE MADDOX\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, has published nine collections of poetry--including \u003ci\u003eLocal News from Someplace Else, Perpendicular As I\u003c\/i\u003e (Sandstone Book Award), and T\u003ci\u003eransplant, Transport, Transubstantiation\u003c\/i\u003e (Yellowglen Prize)--as well as over 450 stories, poems, and essays in journals and anthologies. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCommon Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e and has two children's books: \u003ci\u003eA Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRules of the Game: Baseball Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Her numerous honors include Cornell's Chasen Award and Sage Graduate Fellowship for an MFA, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the \u003ci\u003eSeattle Review's\u003c\/i\u003e Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and Pushcart Prize nominations in both poetry and fiction. She is the great-grandniece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBERNADETTE GEYER\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scabbard of Her Throat\u003c\/i\u003e and recipient of a Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County (Virginia). Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003e2015 Poet's Market, North American Review, Oxford American, Poet Lore, Verse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Geyer leads online workshops on writing and social media, and she works as a freelance writer, editor, and translator in Berlin, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40545689665651,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_afc74ab6-6af9-430d-9d9d-56713ec9f94d.jpg?v=1667054138","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/my-cruel-invention-a-contemporary-poetry-anthology-9780996626200","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}