{"product_id":"plain-talk-rising-poems-9780692107966","title":"Plain Talk Rising: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Dow's \u003cem\u003ePlain Talk Rising\u003c\/em\u003e opens when a boy opens his eyes to his mother's already-inescapable presence. It ends with the possibility of endlessness when the mother touches her own pregnant belly and \"for the first time he knows she knows he is there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Rosenberg (author of \u003cem\u003eA Literary Bible\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author with Harold Bloom of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of J\u003c\/em\u003e) writes that \u003cem\u003ePlain Talk Rising \u003c\/em\u003e\"transmutes poetry into prose, and then back again, like an alchemist let loose in a writing workshop that may set alight our era of MFA's for good.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew Haven Review\u003c\/em\u003e says that \u003cem\u003ePlain Talk Rising\u003c\/em\u003e is \"able to make us feel our lived-in time and a kind of eternal time. . . . Dow's brilliant wordplay is equal to the stringent -- and playful -- task he sets himself.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSentences, stanzas, lines, words, and even individual letters are forms which \"make a man feel trapped and free.\" Syntax touches and delineates objects, ideas, and emotions evenly. \"What's most invisible's the main thing, after all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eDoes everyone fight something without form, \/ something formless, I mean, something parsed \/ to powder mistaken for nothing while meanwhile \/ slipped above the radar and re-forming itself on \/ a wider perimeter, formlessness notwithstanding, \/ or is that just me?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore being \"self-published,\"\u003cem\u003e Plain Talk Rising\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist in the Colorado Prize, New Issues, and Yale Series competitions. It was a semi-finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. The poems in \u003cem\u003ePlain Talk Rising\u003c\/em\u003e were written between the mid-1980s and early 2000s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead more about the book on the \u003cem\u003eAgni\u003c\/em\u003e blog (\"Dick Talk,\" Sept. 3, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDow's poems and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of print and online journals, including \u003cem\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChicago Review, Conjunctions, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Paris Review, Pequod\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e PN Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSLAM! Wrestling, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThreepenny Review, and 3: AM Magazine. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graduate of Yale University and the University of California at Irvine, Dow is also the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons\u003c\/em\u003e (California, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Erratum: Some copies of \u003cem\u003ePlain Talk Rising\u003c\/em\u003e may require the following correction: on p. 14, the penultimate line of the second stanza should read: \". . . To remember and forget are not two opposite acts here\".]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Dow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PTR (New York)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692107966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDow, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mark Dow was born in 1961 in Houston, Texas. He attended Yale University and the University of California, Irvine, and he teaches at Hunter College in New York. He is also the author of American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons (University of California Press, 2004) and co-editor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime (Routledge, 2002). His chapbook Feedback and Other Conversation Poems appears at Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PTR (New York)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40089792970867,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bb2179d8-a4af-4cbc-a375-ad4644e3a446.jpg?v=1652710749","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/plain-talk-rising-poems-9780692107966","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}