{"product_id":"9781556592928","title":"The Dance of No Hard Feelings","description":"Author: Mark Bibbins\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781556592928\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Jan 2010\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Delirious! Adventure stories in the shape of poems.\"-Laurie Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bibbins . . . has the courage to stop, to pin down the always irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume. . . . A brilliant young poet.\"-John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Those who will feel themselves spoken for by these poems have been hungrily awaiting this book.\" -\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his second collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Dance of No Hard Feelings,\u003c\/i\u003e Lambda Award winner Mark Bibbins pressures language into a performance of surprising, invigorating movements across syntax and line. Vulnerable, yet suspicious and sharp-witted, he responds to a nation responsible for and besieged by a bankrupted presidency, employing concise lyrics and longer sequences while in the process inventing a new form, the exploded double haiku.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncited by progressive blogs, ad campaigns, elegy, and Eros, Bibbins addresses environmental catastrophe and grotesque political posturing in our nascent millennium, as well as the corporate media's willingness to front for the worst offenders as it both panders and condescends to audiences drunk on doublespeak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are songs of passionate and ambivalence sung in a dark time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrong decisions are harder to make than most\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003epeople realize, tears flying sideways in a gale.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe swerve in the road so as not to hit dead things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut I used to know someone who did the opposite.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe liked to drive through them. Stars are most\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eserious when seen from the back of a pickup truck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhile very very drunk and if someone kisses you \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere it doesn't count. . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Bibbins\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and edits the poetry section of \u003ci\u003eThe Awl.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920581935262,"sku":"ING-9781556592928","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781556592928.jpg?v=1782824844","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781556592928","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}