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Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker  How does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?  In the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, Toxicon \u0026amp; Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.  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Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day.   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In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts strange meetings of authors, texts, and artworks across the boundaries of genre, period, and nation; and examines such epiphenomena as translation, anachronism, and violence. Through readings of artists as diverse as Wilfred Owen, Andy Warhol, Harryette Mullen, Roberto Bolano, Aime Cesaire, and Georges Bataille, The Necropastoral shows by what strategies Art persists amid lethal conditions as a spectacular, uncanny force.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50134588129553,"sku":"CIN0472052411G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472052411.jpg?v=1751166294"},{"product_id":"red-bird-book-joyelle-mcsweeney-9780971318908","title":"The Red Bird","description":"Winner of the 2001 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, selected by Allen Grossman. 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