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These powerful, musical poems explore our hemispheric grief under the yokes of labyrinthine immigration policies, militarized policing, and mass capitalism.","brand":"Daniel Borzutzky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793328898090,"sku":"9781566897051","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/murmuring-grief-of-the-americas-4382179.jpg?v=1762150591"},{"product_id":"performance-of-becoming-human","title":"Performance of Becoming Human","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry, Daniel Borzutzky's new collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/em\u003e, draws hemispheric connections between the US and Latin America, specifically touching upon issues relating to border and immigration policies, economic disparity, political violence, and the disturbing rhetoric of capitalism and bureaucracies. 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Borzutzky, whose writing Eileen Myles has described as \"violent, perverse, and tender\" in its portrayal of \"American and global horror,\" adds another chapter to a growing and important compilation of work that asks what it means to a be both a unitedstatesian and a globalized subject whose body is \"shared between the earth, the state, and the bank.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Borzutzky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793329225770,"sku":"9781936767465","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/performance-of-becoming-human-7203872.jpg?v=1762150591"},{"product_id":"lake-michigan","title":"Lake Michigan","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, winner of the National Book Award for poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLake Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. 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But while the influences in this book (Césaire, Vallejo, Neruda) are international, the focus here is local as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.","brand":"Daniel Borzutzky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793329553450,"sku":"9780822965220","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/lake-michigan-9502809.jpg?v=1762150590"},{"product_id":"written-after-a-massacre-in-the-year-2018","title":"Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalism's moral decay.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWritten After a Massacre in the Year 2018\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy, against hate spreading like a virus. He grieves for children in cages and those slain in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. But pulsing amid Borzutzky's outrage over our era's tragedies is a longing for something better: for generosity to triumph over stinginess and for peace to transform injustice. Borzutzky's strident language juxtaposes the horror of consumer-culture violence with its absurdity, and he masterfully shifts between shock and heartbreak over the course of the collection. 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