{"product_id":"what-to-miss-when","title":"What to Miss When: Poems","description":"\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.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44459632689289,"sku":"9781593766979","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/imageloader_f5ca63b3-2b5c-4e7f-9d23-3ebe8fac3ad9.jpg?v=1780861698","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/what-to-miss-when","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}