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Selected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo Bang Sarah Vap�s sixth work of poetry, Viability is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in an effort to understand and to ask questions about the bodies (and minds, maybe even souls) that are owned by capitalism. These threads of language include definitions from an online financial dictionary, samples from an essay on the economics of slavery, quotations from an article about slavery in today�s Thai fishing industry, lyric bits and pieces about pregnancy and infants of all kinds, and a wealth of quotations falsely attributed to John of the Cross. The viability that Vap is asking about is primarily economic and biological (but not only). The questions of viability become entwined with the need, across the book, to �increase��in both a capitalist and a gestational sense. John of the Cross tries, at first with composure, to comment on or to mediate between all the different strands of the collection. (less)
Selected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo Bang Sarah Vap�s sixth work of poetry, Viability is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in (…more)
A brilliant and beautiful book of poems that weaves threads of the body and the economy: love, slavery, wire, teeth, algorithms, blood, language, radiation and gestation. This book is a swift, feeling, thinking, savage and living animal.
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