{"product_id":"the-engineers-paperback","title":"The Engineers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaty Lederer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her long-anticipated fourth collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Engineers\u003c\/em\u003e, Katy Lederer draws on the newfangled languages of reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and global warming to ask the age-old questions: What is \"the self\"? What is \"the other\"? And how to reproduce \"one's self\"? In poems that are both lyrical and playfully autobiographical, Lederer imagines form as a kind of genetics, synthesizing lines out of a rigorous constraint. Things can go wrong. The body--or poem--malfunctions, evacuating crucial parts of itself (miscarriage), or growing too aggressively or quickly (cancer). The body--or poem--attacks or even eats itself (autoimmune dysfunction; autophagy). Written almost entirely in the choral \"we,\" the poems move among the perspectives of the bewildered parent, the unborn child, and the inscrutable God who looks down upon the human world. In a post-Roe landscape, the poems complicate and ultimately refashion our pre-conceived notions of the self--and of life. Radical, uncanny, and stunningly original, \u003cem\u003eThe Engineers\u003c\/em\u003e takes us on a journey to a place we've never been, but that is hauntingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaty Lederer \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three previous books of poetry and a memoir. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in the\u003ci\u003e American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other publications. She has also reported on energy and climate change for \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the New Yorker online. A recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, she has taught poetry workshops and climate change writing at Columbia University, Fordham University, Barnard College, and the New School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 7.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691462758463,"sku":"9781947817609","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/46bff61014b65a85dea9608e99e8b5ac.webp?v=1764992193","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-engineers-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}