Reaper by Jill McDonough (English) Paperback Book

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A targeted look at America's drone program and our culpability, questioning what, if anything, we've learned from our brutal past

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"Reaper knocked me flat with its utter breathlessness. . . . McDonough paints a stark picture of a soulless tomorrow ruled by the technologies of convenience--a tomorrow we just might stop if we could."--Patricia SmithThese dark, straightforward poems showcase the power of technology by painting a vivid picture of America's expanding drone program and the havoc we wreak--and then ignore--around the globe. McDonough offers the past, present, and future as non-linear timelines, and explores how the intersection between man and machine is starting to blur, and how we're losing qualities essential to being human.From "My Sister Wants to Buy My Dad a Drone For Father's Day" What a painin the ass to have a sister like me, who won't just fork over her shareof the dough. Who has to feel dumbways about things, distracted by nameslike DarkStar, Scan Eagle, Shadow, Wasp Block. Who doesn't want a toyairplane with a camera? My dad is not goingto shoot suspected insurgents, hoverover his neighbors' homes for days.Technology is fungible. Alsoreally cool. Drones don't kill people, people et cetera. People drownin water. But I still want to drink it.Jill McDonough is the winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes. She's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, and taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.

Author Biography

The winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, Jill McDonough is the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and Where You Live (Salt, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston and 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online.

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Habeas Corpus Jill McDonough 9781844714247 15.95 Salt Publishing 07/21/2008 Where You Live Jill McDonough 9781844719099 15.95 Salt Publishing 08/15/2012 Snowflake / different streets Eileen Myles 9781933517582 20.00 Wave Books 04/03/2012

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Author has been published in an incredible 50+ publications over the past four years, including AGNI, Harvard Review, The Boston Globe, Tupelo Quarterly, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Poetry Daily and more. Has won a Pushcart Prize in 2009, 2012 and 2013, and featured in Best American Poetry in 2011. Was a City of Boston Poet Laureate Semifinalist in 2014 Awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2014.

Details ISBN1938584260 Author Jill McDonough Short Title REAPER Pages 100 Publisher Alice James Books Language English ISBN-10 1938584260 ISBN-13 9781938584268 Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-04-11 Imprint Alice James Books Audience General We've got this

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