{"product_id":"what-to-miss-when-poems-9781593766979","title":"What to Miss When: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems about pop culture, mortality, and the internet, written during the Coronavirus pandemic--for readers who are more likely to double-tap Instapoems than put their phone down long enough to read \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatalyzed by sheltering in place and by a personal challenge to give up alcohol for thirty days, Leigh Stein, the poet laureate of \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelor\u003c\/i\u003e, has written a twenty-first-century \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e to frame modern fables. \u003ci\u003eWhat to Miss When\u003c\/i\u003e makes mischief of reality TV and wellness influencers, juicy thoughtcrimes and love languages, and the mixed messages of contemporary feminism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Think Starlight,\" the first poem in this collection, written before any self-quarantine orders, imagined the likelihood that the United States would follow in Italy's footsteps in terms of caseload and hospital overwhelm. By March 17, 2020, the imagined was the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e New York City had closed schools, bars, and restaurants--with the rest of the country close behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith nihilist humor and controlled despair, \u003ci\u003eWhat to Miss When\u003c\/i\u003e explores fears of death and grocery shopping, stress cleaning and drinking, celebrities behaving badly, everything we took for granted, and life mediated by screens--with dissociation-via-internet, and looking for mirrors in a fourteenth-century pandemic text, a kind of survival response to living casually through catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leigh Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593766979","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45463143448713,"sku":"9781593766979","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0d55cbfc-af80-4e83-a4ea-194ead19018f.jpg?v=1774997980","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/what-to-miss-when-poems-9781593766979","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}