{"product_id":"11-01-2022-hemmert-andrew-blessing-the-exoskeleton","title":"Hemmert, Andrew: Blessing the Exoskeleton","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 1, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlessing the Exoskeleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach their stories in roundabout and slanted ways. A meditation on job seeking begets a story about the author's father attempting to catch an owl in a fishing net. A fire down the road from the author's apartment begets a meditation on telemarketing. Personal histories collide with headlines, resulting in poems that convey everyday experience and seek to praise it. Despite the northern cold and the tyranny of the news, Hemmert develops his own theories for navigating his life, finding beauty in an unfamiliar landscape and climate.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9780822966975\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40363053547543,"sku":"9780822966975","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail-8_e3d7f081-9153-478c-8977-218923668ad9.gif?v=1666481426","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/11-01-2022-hemmert-andrew-blessing-the-exoskeleton","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}