{"product_id":"olson-kirby-night-shifpb","title":"Olson, Kirby: Night Shift at the Utopian Turtletop Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf Inch Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book takes its title from Marianne Moore's famously rejected suggestion for the Edsel-\"Utopian Turtletop,\" a moment when high modernist language briefly brushed American industry and was politely set aside. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Shift at the Utopian Turtletop Factory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e imagines that phrase surviving after hours, carried into the night shift where work, prayer, and speech blur: poems shaped over years of pruning and return, attentive to the ricochet between working-class religion and the long afterlife of modernism, with older roots reaching back toward early patristic voices. Rather than argue positions, the book listens for pressure-how belief, labor, and inherited forms strike one another and leave a residue in the line - so that what began as fragments and refusals gradually coheres into a single, nocturnal field of attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45630362124311,"sku":"9781969849107","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61HpEjVoC9L._SL1360.jpg?v=1790281930","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/olson-kirby-night-shifpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}