{"product_id":"ars-poeticas-juliana-spahr-hardcover","title":"Ars Poeticas -- Juliana Spahr, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populism\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e During the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times. In the six ars poeticas that Spahr writes, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades. She writes not only of the rich history of what politics and poetry have done with each other, but what they might yet do together. [Sample Poem] from ARS POETICA 1: CORAL To write poetry after Castle Bravo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nThen to write poetry after 1500 feet.\n\nAfter high-quality steel frame buildings\n\nnot completely collapsed, except\n\nall panels and roofs blown in.\n\nAfter 2,000 feet.\n\nAfter reinforced concrete buildings collapsed\n\nor standing but badly damaged.\n\nAfter 3,500 feet.\n\nAfter church buildings completely destroyed.\n\nAfter brick walls severely cracked.\n\nAfter 4,400 feet.\n\nAfter 5,300 feet.\n\nAfter roof tiles bubbled and melted.\n\nAfter 6,500 feet.\n\nAfter mass distortion of large steel buildings.\n\nTo write the Cold War and doves.\n\nThe Cold War and tapeworms.\n\nThe Cold War and sails of ships.\n\nThe Cold War and the steel of bridges.\n\nTo write poetry after that.\n\nTo write in a world with few nutrients, one that rocks back and forth.\n\nThe same beginning in both the sea and the land.\n\nTo write poetry that knows a hard, cup-shaped skeleton.\n\nAnd then poetry that knows\n\nthe long, stinging tentacles capturing.\n\nKnows the water.\n\nThe Atlantic and the Pacific.\n\nThe connections between.\n\nThe one moving into the other.\n\nTo develop poetry in the stomach\n\nthat then exits through the mouth\n\nwhich is the anus.\n\nTo write poetry in the blue\n\nthat is the absence of green.\n\nLight penetration.\n\nWhorls of tentacles.\n\nThe slime earth too.\n\nHunters and farmers.\n\nShallow water.\n\nFew nutrients.\n\nHigh fecundity.\n\nRapid growth.\n\nMultiarmed morphology and tube feet.\n\nTo write tube feet.\n\nTo write the exact place.\n\nSeaward slope place.\n\nSea terrace place.\n\nAlgal ridge place.\n\nCoral algal zone place.\n\nSeaward reef flat place.\n\nIslet or interisland reef crest place.\n\nLagoon reef flat place.\n\nLagoon terrace place.\n\nLagoon floor or basin place.\n\nCoral knolls, pinnacle and patch reefs place.\n\nTo write poetry after.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Juliana Spahr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/4\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.2\" H x 6.4\" L x 0.49\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780819501523\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51745496465707,"sku":"9780819501523","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780819501523.jpg?v=1782943816","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/ars-poeticas-juliana-spahr-hardcover","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}