{"product_id":"what-to-miss-when-poems","title":"What to Miss When: Poems","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWhat to Miss When: Poems\u003c\/h1\u003eLeigh Stein\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Soft Skull\u003cbr\u003eAugust 1 2021\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781593766979\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1593766971\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \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","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390927011885,"sku":"19549","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_32587109-8ed8-440e-876d-fc005c378b95.jpg?v=1787349389","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/what-to-miss-when-poems","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}