{"product_id":"soft-apocalypse-paperback","title":"Soft Apocalypse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeah Nieboer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Zawacki\u003c\/b\u003e (Selected by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoft Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e pirouettes in the \"anemic glow\" of late capitalism, its prose poems and lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going on. Chrome angels, strange beloveds, and cool-eyed speakers cut speculative lines through precarious spaces of the present--deserts and nightscapes, neon-lit strips, corner stores, foreclosures, pharmacy queues, and \"crumpled back alleys\"--making imaginative economies, queer kinships, and alternative ways of being in the world. Nothing here is done with ease, but irreducible gifts do slip surreptitiously from palm to palm: after all, \"we all need a little help sometimes \/ baby.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoft Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e insistently edges these unofficial exchanges and intimate apprehensions against the official orders, projections, violations, and isolations of our time. Instead of calculating toward a dystopic ending, this book bets on its softer wrecks, a futurity in an intimately rewired collective.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEAH NIEBOER grew up in Iowa. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Denver, a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers' Contest in Poetry, and the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterim: A Journal of Poetry \u0026amp; Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Proposal\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. She lives in Denver and is at work on her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453819830450,"sku":"9780820363691","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2935ace820753b61318b347b8b065e9b.webp?v=1778838246","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/soft-apocalypse-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}