{"product_id":"kuhn-jesse-cicada-whepb","title":"[10\/13\/26] Kuhn, Jesse: Cicada Wheel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpout Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 13, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesse Kuhn’s Cicada Wheel documents the grinding resistance of a poet insisting on dignity in poor, Midwestern America. Obstacles to self-respect populate the poems––class envy, predatory institutions, an unforgiving misogynist culture, workplace alienation, generational dysfunction. In Cicada Wheel these trials ultimately serve to highlight the cathartic function of reading and writing poetry. Through its expression of human complexity and creative desire, poetic practice itself provides the possibility of dignity. Jesse Kuhn’s poems find resistance through syntax, humor, and formal invention, as well as via the soul work of transforming the bewildering, nightmarish experience of contemporary culture into a radical and experimental poetic voice. Cicada Wheel is one assertion of poetry’s effectiveness in warding off America’s spiritual desolation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45484224741399,"sku":"9781968271022","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1787545190-900.jpg?v=1788732319","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/kuhn-jesse-cicada-whepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}