What to Miss WhenWhat to Miss When
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Book, 2021
Current format, Book, 2021, First Soft Skull edition, No Longer Available.Book, 2021
Current format, Book, 2021, First Soft Skull edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsCatalyzed by sheltering in-place and by a personal challenge to give up alcohol for thirty days, Leigh Stein, the poet laureate of The Bachelor, has written a twenty-first-century Decameron to frame modern fables. What to Miss When makes mischief of reality-TV and wellness influencers, juicy thoughtcrimes and love languages, and the mixed messages of contemporary feminism. "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 real: New York City had closed schools, bars, and restaurants--with the rest of the country close behind. With nihilist humor and controlled despair, What to Miss When 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. -- Back cover.
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