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Bread and Circus
Engelsk
Bogcover for Bread and Circus af Airea D. Matthews, 9781668011454
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Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781668011454
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
166801145X
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Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Scribner
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2023
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Bread and Circus

Engelsk
Hardback
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“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub

This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing conversation about American inequality.

As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed by 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. Now, she presents a direct challenge to Smith’s theory of the invisible hand, which claims self-interest is the key to optimal economic outcomes. By juxtaposing redacted texts by Smith and the French Marxist Guy Debord with autobiographical prose and poems, Bread and Circus personally offers how self-interest fails when it reduces people to commodity and spectacle.

A layered collection to be read and reread, with poems that range from tragic to humorous, in forms as varied and nuanced as the ideas the book considers, Bread and Circus asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost. “Full of humane wisdom, this powerful volume forces readers to acknowledge systemic inequity” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and is ideal for fans of Elizabeth Alexander, Natalie Diaz, Eve Ewing, and Gregory Pardlo.







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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781668011454
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
166801145X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Scribner
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
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