{"product_id":"the-incentive-of-the-maggot-9780618543588","title":"The Incentive of the Maggot","description":"In his prize-winning collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate \"brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.\" In Slate's words, \"Is this the end of the world? \/ No just the end \/ of the language that describes it.\" Recently published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to \"make the known world seem wickedly strange -- a poetry that is utterly of the moment, our moment, because it sounds like nobody else.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Slate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 5.50w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618543588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/2005 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate, Ron:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - RON SLATE is the author of The Incentive of the Maggot, nominated for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize of the Academy of American Poets. In over 30 years of business experience, he was vice president of global communications for a Fortune 500 technology company, chief operating officer of a life sciences company, and a co-founder of a social network for family caregivers. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40075939545203,"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_bf99f97c-0c8e-49a6-927e-4cd1644a1595.jpg?v=1652105729","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-incentive-of-the-maggot-9780618543588","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}